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 is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Mortuary chapel, laundry building.
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
- WRENN ID
- second-moat-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Type
- Mortuary chapel, laundry building
- OS grid reference
- ST 440 548
- Coordinates
- 51.29029, -2.80342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The site includes two late 19th-century mortuary chapels, late 19th-century cemetery entrance gates and a central cross, as well as an early 20th-century laundry building, all located within the grounds of the former St. Michael’s Home for Consumptives.
The first mortuary building, situated 19 meters northeast of St. Michael's Home, is a late 19th-century structure faced in rubble stone with Bath-stone dressings. It is a square, single-storey building with a flat roof and a parapet. The south elevation features a large entrance with a stone lintel, while the east side has a two-light mullioned window. Inside, it consists of a single-cell room with a terrazzo floor that has a black border.
The second mortuary shelter, located 60 meters northwest of St. Michael's Home, is also from the late 19th century and is earth-covered, constructed of rubble stone. It has an entrance on the south elevation that is an arched opening, topped by a double row of brick voussoirs, and features a brick-vaulted roof.
The early 20th-century laundry building, found 70 meters north of St. Michael's Home, is a single-storey structure faced in rubble stone with a deep pitched tile roof that has a stone ridge stack. The south elevation includes 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 each have three, three-leaf, eighteen-pane windows, with two on the ground floor and a central window in the roof space above. There is also a secondary entrance and additional windows at the rear. The main laundry room, located to the right of the entrance corridor, contains remnants of winches, a central chimney breast, and a metal frame in the roof space, along with further utility rooms at the back.
The cemetery entrance gates consist of two Bath-stone piers with pyramidal capitals and a wrought-iron gate featuring cruciform and scroll decoration. The Bath-stone central cross has a slender shaft topped by a cross, standing on a hexagonal plinth with chamfered corners and a three-tiered base.
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