Roman Catholic Cemetery Chapel At Borough Cemetery

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD17SE DEVONSHIRE ROAD 708-1/3/45 (North side (off)) Roman Catholic cemetery chapel at Borough Cemetery

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Cemetery chapel now store. Dated 1872. Probably by Paley and Austin. Irregular limestone walling with red sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. Cruciform plan with crossing tower; Romanesque. Chamfered plinth; quoined angle buttresses. Entrance in west gable has double doors with decorative iron hinges in 3-order arch with colonnettes and zig-zag ornament; impost string course rises as hoodmould; window over also has zig-zag. Windows to each return are set on continuous string courses and linked by impost bands. Transepts have tall central light flanked by pairs of blind windows with colonnette mullions. East window of 3 lights, the central light taller with hoodmould carried over the side lights as a string course. Lobed eaves band; chamfered gable copings with apex cross at east end and twin flue stack rising from south transept; terracotta ridge cresting. Crossing tower rises from square base to become octagonal and has leaded window in each side and columns at the angles; carved corbel table and lobed band at eaves of steep hipped roof with finial. INTERIOR: red/blue floor tiles; yellow brick wall lining. Crossing has semi-circular responds with carved capitals to arches with nailhead ornament.

Listing NGR: SD1999070734