Latitude: 54.5456 / 54°32'44"N
Longitude: -1.918 / 1°55'4"W
OS Eastings: 405403
OS Northings: 516712
OS Grid: NZ054167
Mapcode National: GBR HH1W.K9
Mapcode Global: WHB4L.H0WK
Plus Code: 9C6WG3WJ+7R
Entry Name: Cemetery Chapel
Listing Date: 29 November 1993
Last Amended: 29 November 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1218971
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388857
ID on this website: 101218971
Location: Barnard Castle, County Durham, DL12
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Barnard Castle
Built-Up Area: Barnard Castle
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Barnard Castle with Whorlton
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Chapel
NZ0516NW
770-1/4/228
BARNARD CASTLE
VICTORIA ROAD (south side)
Cemetery Chapel
(Formerly Listed as: VICTORIA ROAD (South side) Mortuary Chapel)
29/11/93
GV
II
Cemetery Chapel.1859. By FRN Haswell. Snecked stone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; roof and spire of graduated Lakeland slate with bands of grey and green diaper patterns and stone gable coping. Early English style. Nave and sanctuary with north porch, north-west belfry, south vestry.
EXTERIOR: polygonal apse has three tall lancets breaking eaves under gablets;
sill-string to two north lancets, south lancets, and stepped under three west lancets. North porch has nook-shafts to roll-moulded pointed arch recessed under chamfered arch with drip-string extending to coping of clasping buttresses' vent slit in high gable. Steeply-pitched roof hipped at east and gabled at west, with truncated central ventilator, and stone cross finial to west. Bell tower in north-west angle of porch and nave has blind arcade in low first stage flanked by clasping buttresses between which rise four central buttresses to tall second stage. Paired arches in open belfry stages with nook-shafts and angle shafts; prominent gargoyles at angles of tall pyramidal roof.
INTERIOR: derelict; pews removed. Shouldered rere-arches, toggled arch to vestry, stone fireplace, medieval-style floor tiles and painted stucco with scrolls and legends. Waggon roof with scissor trusses.
Listing NGR: NZ0540316712
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