Dalton Cemetery, Northernmost Chapel

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD2273 CEMETERY HILL, Dalton In Furness 708-1/11/159 (West side (off)) Dalton Cemetery, northernmost chapel

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Conformist cemetery chapel now disused. Consecrated 1862 (Local Board Yearbook). Squared rubble limestone with ashlar sandstone dressings; graduated slate roof. Nave with rounded apse to east and with gabled wing and loggia to north. Gothic Revival style. Chamfered plinth, large quoins. Trabeated loggia, under catslide roof in angle with wing, has 3 columns with square bases and carved capitals; chamfered stone gutter. Within are 2 doorways with decorative iron hinges to double doors; double-chamfered 2-centred arches with carved hoodmould stops. Wing on right has string course below 2 cusped lancets linked by hoodmould; quatrefoil over. South side of nave: buttresses between three 2-light windows with Geometrical tracery and differing heads carved on hoodmould stops. Steeply pitched roof with shaped kneelers and ashlar gable copings; cross to west apex; bellcote to east with gable corbelled from clustered colonnettes. Lower apse has recessed panels with impost string course linking cusped lancets with colonnettes, hoodmoulds and relieving arches; scalloped eaves band. Semi-conical roof with iron finial. INTERIOR: fittings removed except for Gothic Revival wooden screen between nave and wing. (Tyson J: Dalton in Furness: Local Board Accounts: 1887-: 79).

Listing NGR: SD2272473590