Building record MLI126024 - Mortuary Chapels, Grantham Cemetery
Summary
Mortuary chapels at Grantham Cemetery, built in 1857.
Type and Period (2)
- MORTUARY CHAPEL (Post Medieval to Modern - 1857 AD to 2050 AD)
- CEMETERY CHAPEL (Post Medieval to Modern - 1857 AD to 2050 AD)
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Full Description
Pair of attached mortuary chapels at Grantham Cemetery, linked by an archway and a shared roof structure. They were built in 1857, in a Decorated Gothic style, and consist of an Anglican chapel at the southern half with a nonconformist chapel at the northern half. The chapels are built of ashlar limestone, and feature traceried windows and steeply pitched roofs. A slender broach spire is attached to the southern chapel, adjacent to the arch, which carries the main access roadway through to the crematorium. {1}{2}
Sources/Archives (2)
- <1> SLI1062 Bibliographic Reference: Nikolaus Pevsner and John Harris, with Nicholas Antram. 1989. Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (Second Edition). p.321.
- <2> SLI13505 Unpublished Document: English Heritage / Historic England. 2011->. Advice Report from a Heritage Asset Assessment. Case No.1439742.
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Location
Grid reference | Centred SK 92110 35567 (15m by 27m) Surveyed |
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Civil Parish | GRANTHAM, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Mar 25 2022 9:41AM
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