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505074 BOSTON BOSTON CEMETERY Former Mortuary Grade II Former mortuary now used for storage. First built in 1855 and rebuilt in 1885. Designed by James Pigott Pritchett Junior. MATERIALS: Built of brick, stone and slate. PLAN: It has a rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: This former mortuary is a small, single storey building of yellow and red bricks, on a sonte capped brick plinth, with stone dressings, including stone surrounds to all openings. The bricks to the rear (west) elevation are different to thopse on the other elevations, which is presuamble a result of the mortuary having being dismantled and erbuilt in 1885. A steeply slo[ping slate roof has stone coped gables on kneelers and a stone finial to the east agble. The southeast and northweast corners each ahe an angled buttress and there are two further buttresses, one central and one at the western end, on both the north and south elevations. There are two arched door openings, one to the east gable and one to the sdouth elevation, with the former having a dripstone with vine and grable label stops. The door to the east gable is double thickness with vertical planks on the outside and horizintal planks on the inside, and has decorated strap hinges; the door to the south elevation is a modern replacement. There are three arched window opneings, two to the nortyh elevation and one to the souty elevataion, and a trefoil window opening in th eipper part of each of the gables. The glass has been removed from all othe windows, which are boarded up. INTERIOR: The building is divided into tw simple rooms, both of which have exposed roof timbers. HISTORY: The Burial Board Act of 1854 authorised the setting up of burial boards outside London. In that year the newly formed Boston Burial Board agreed to create a cemteryon a twelve acres site to the north of the town. The cemetery, which was designed by James pigottr Pritchett Junior (1830-1911) of Darlington and laid out by Baker and Son of Sleaford, was opened for funerals in 1855. The original cemetery included the entrance lodge at its weatern end, on Horncastle Road; two chapels, one Anglican and the other Nonconformist, which were located on either side of a main avenue. The cemetery was extended to the west and south in 1885, at which time the mortuary was dismantled and rebuilt further westwards, but now on the extended main avenue and with the boundaries of the extended cemetery. The cemetery was extended again in 1928, 1940 and 1966. Ownership of the cemetery was transferred to Boston Borough Council in 1933. The main entrance is now from Marian Road to the south and the lodge on Horncastle Road is now used solely as a domestic residence. The mortuary is now used for storage. REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION: The former Mortuary is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * It is a well designed and largely intact example of a cemtery lodge in the gothic revival style. * It is by a distinguished architect, with a large number of listed buildings to his name; * It has group value with the designed landscape of the Grade II registered cemetery, which also contains a Grade II listed Cemetery Chapel and former mortuary. {1}

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