Two late-C19 mortuary chapels, late-C19 cemetery entrance gates and central cross, and an early-C20 laundry building, within the grounds of the former St. Michael’s Cheshire Home

Two late-C19 mortuary chapels, late-C19 cemetery entrance gates and central cross, and an early-C20 laundry building, within the grounds of the former St Michael’s Home, for Consumptives.

MORTUARY BUILDING 19M NORTH EAST OF ST MICHAEL'S HOME: the late-C19 mortuary building is faced in rubble stone with Bath-stone dressings. It is a square single-storey structure with a flat, parapet room. There is a large entrance with a stone lintel in the south elevation and a two-light mullioned window in the east. Internally it is a single-cell room with a terrazzo floor finished with a black border.

MORTUARY SHELTER 60M NORTH WEST OF ST MICHAEL'S HOME: the late-C19 earth-covered mortuary shelter is constructed of rubble stone. The entrance in the south elevation is an arched opening topped by a double row of brick voussoirs. It has a brick-vault roof.

LAUNDRY BUILDING 70M NORTH OF ST MICHAEL' S HOME: the early-C20 laundry is single-storey and faced in rubble stone, with a deep pitched tile roof topped by a stone ridge stack. The south elevation has an off-centre entrance with a two-leaf, twelve-pane window to the left and a four-leaf, twenty four-pane window to the right. The east and west elevations has three, three-leaf, eighteen-pane windows; two on the ground floor and a central window in the roof space above. To the rear is a secondary entrance and further windows. The main laundry room is to the right of the entrance corridor and contains the remnants of the winches, central chimney breast and metal frame in the roof space. There are further utility rooms to the rear.

CEMETERY ENTRANCE GATES AND CENTRAL CROSS: the main CEMETERY ENTRANCE GATES comprise two Bath-stone piers with pyramidal capitals and a wrought-iron gate with cruciform and scroll decoration. The Bath-stone CENTRAL CROSS has a slender shaft topped by a cross. It stands on a hexagonal plinth with chamfered corners and a three-tiered base.

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/09/2015