Dalton Cemetery, Northernmost Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1993. Cemetery chapel.
Dalton Cemetery, Northernmost Chapel
- WRENN ID
- knotted-corbel-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1993
- Type
- Cemetery chapel
- Address
- Dalton Cemetery, Northernmost Chapel, Cemetery Hill, Dalton Town with Newton
- OS grid reference
- SD 227 735
- Coordinates
- 54.1523, -3.1847
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The northernmost chapel in Dalton Cemetery is a disused Conformist cemetery chapel, consecrated in 1862. It is built from squared rubble limestone with ashlar sandstone dressings and features a graduated slate roof. The chapel is designed in the Gothic Revival style, comprising a nave with a rounded apse to the east, a gabled wing, and a loggia to the north.
Architectural details include a chamfered plinth, large quoins, and a trabeated loggia under a catslide roof, supported by three columns with square bases and carved capitals. The loggia also has a chamfered stone gutter. Inside, there are two doorways with decorative iron hinges leading to double doors, and the arches above are double-chamfered with carved hoodmould stops.
The right wing features a string course below two cusped lancets that are linked by a hoodmould, with a quatrefoil above. On the south side of the nave, buttresses are positioned between three 2-light windows adorned with Geometrical tracery and differing heads carved on the hoodmould stops. The steeply pitched roof has shaped kneelers and ashlar gable copings, with a cross at the west apex and a bellcote at the east, supported by clustered colonnettes.
The lower apse has recessed panels with an impost string course connecting cusped lancets, which also feature colonnettes, hoodmoulds, and relieving arches, along with a scalloped eaves band. The roof is semi-conical with an iron finial. The interior fittings have been removed, except for a Gothic Revival wooden screen that separates the nave from the wing.
Local climate
Dalton Cemetery, Northernmost Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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