Lancaster Cemetery Chapels
Architecture
All the chapels are constructed in coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. They have slate roofs, and are in Gothic Revival style. The western chapel has a cruciform plan, with the entrance porch facing east. It has angle buttresses and coped gables. A continuous string course runs round the chapel at the level of the window sills. The windows in the north and south walls are triple stepped lancets. In the west gable is a wheel window. The porch is long, with open arcades along the sides supported by polished granite shafts. In the gable of the porch is a poppyhead, and on its apex stands a cross finial. The eastern chapel is a mirror image of the western chapel. The northern chapel is simpler, having a rectangular plan, with a narrow projection to the north and a porch facing south. All the windows are lancets. There are cross finials on the east and west gables. Each of the chapels is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
See also
References
- ^ Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 408, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
- ^ Historic England, "Western Mortuary Chapel at Lancaster Cemetery (1298305)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 23 August 2011
- ^ Historic England, "Eastern Mortuary Chapel at Lancaster Cemetery (1195078)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 23 August 2011
- ^ Historic England, "Northern Mortuary Chapel at Lancaster Cemetery (1212689)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 23 August 2011