Description

LARTINGTON LARTINGTON LANE
NZ 0217
(North side, off)
32/96 Mausoleum/Mortuary
Chapel, 90 metres
north of Yew Trees
II
Small mausoleum/mortuary chapel. Dated 1877 on keystone. Built for Monsignor
Thomas Witham of Lartington Hall. Rock-faced masonry with leaded roofs. Square,
single-cell plan.

Stepped clasping buttresses. Pair of 3-panel doors in splayed round-arched
doorway with roll-moulded hoodmould and projecting keystone inscribed: TW 1877.
Doorway-flanked by stepped pilasters partly cut away to accommodate red sandstone
colonnettes. Pilasters crowned by statuettes of St. Peter (to left) and St.
Paul (to right). Raised cross above keystone. Wood eaves cornice. Low-pitched
hipped roof surmounted by glazed, square-plan lantern with leaded pyramidal
roof. Slightly-projecting rear bay has 3 stepped round-headed lancets.

Caen-stone-lined interior has carvings by Messrs. Priestman and Sons of
Darlington.

Of interest as a mortuary chapel in a private Catholic cemetery.

Listing NGR: NZ0205217860

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26414212

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