Chapel of the Sepulchre, including walls flanking entrance is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 May 2001. Chapel.
Chapel of the Sepulchre, including walls flanking entrance
- WRENN ID
- tired-niche-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 May 2001
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Chapel of the Sepulchre is a rectangular single-cell chapel built with snecked rock-faced stone and red sandstone dressings. It features a pitched slate-covered roof, with the rear and side walls below ground level. The wide gutters at the eaves drain water towards the south and are bordered by low rubble stone walls topped with stepped flat coping stones. The front of the chapel is symmetrical, featuring a central entrance. The chamfered doorway has decorative filleted stops and a segmental-arched head beneath a hoodmould. On either side of the entrance are small single lights with shallow pointed-arched heads and stone sills, which include substantial iron cross-bars, each topped with a fleur-de-lis finial. Above the entrance is a small chamfered roundel set in a square surround under a relieving arch, and a cross sits at the gable apex. The gable is flanked by parapets, all featuring continuous moulded stone copings, and small openings beneath the parapets allow for drainage from the eaves. A sunken walkway, matching the width of the chapel, leads to the entrance and is retained by rubble stone walls with rough stone copings.
Inside, the chapel has a canted plaster ceiling, an encaustic tile floor, brick-lined walls, and small decorative iron vents. At the north end, there is an almost full-height chamfered stone arch with hollow stops and fillets, topped with a hoodmould that has scrolled foliate end stops. This archway contains double decorative iron gates with an arched head, fleur-de-lis, and scrolled finials, along with flanking railings featuring pointed finials. Behind the arch is a small sanctuary with a dressed stone altar. The reredos includes a trefoil-headed blind arch that displays the 14th station, depicted as a coloured mosaic titled 'Jesus is laid in the tomb'. A stone tablet beneath the altar serves as a memorial to Francis W Reynolds, who established this station, as well as to the other benefactors of the chapel. Above the archway is an iron vent shaped like a cross.
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