Mortuary Chapel (Church of England), Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Mortuary chapel.
Mortuary Chapel (Church of England), Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- turning-flagstone-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Mortuary chapel
- Address
- Mortuary Chapel (Church of England), Cemetery, Waterloo Road, Shepton Mallet
- OS grid reference
- ST 617 441
- Coordinates
- 51.19501, -2.54869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mortuary Chapel, part of the Church of England cemetery, was built in 1856 by Wainwright and Heard. It features coursed rubble with dressed stone details and a slate roof with coped verges. The chapel is designed in the Decorated style and has a rectangular plan. At the west end, there is a broad, elaborately moulded pointed-arch doorway with a flush panelled door that has large scroll-decorated iron hinges. The north and south sides each have three bays with pointed arch windows that include reticulated tracery and plain leaded glazing. At the east end, there is a large pointed arch window with reticulated tracery and stained glass. The interior is simple and retains its original pews. The chapel forms a pair with the Non-Conformist chapel nearby.
Local climate
Mortuary Chapel (Church of England), Cemetery receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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