Description

SE 14 NW
4/170

CEMETERY ROAD (West Side)
Southern chapel at Ilkley cemetery

II

Municipal cemetery chapel disused at time of survey. c1880. Coursed sandstone with gritstone dressings, plain and sloped green slate roof. One storey, three by one bays with gable entrance loggia on left of square bell-tower; south vestibule; small west apse. Gothic Revival style with Romanesque loggia. Loggia has trabeated openings divided by red sandstone columns with foliated capitals; quoined, pointed arched doorway within; hipped roof abuts tower.

Tower: pointed arched sill and dripstone; quoined front and side gables to ashlar roof from which rises the circular base of an hexagonal spire raised on colonnade.

Chapel: cinquefoil gable window; right return has offset buttresses between cusped and foiled two light windows under pointed arches and hoodmoulds. South vestibule with shouldered doorhead and squareheaded windows; stack rises from main eaves above. Semi circular apse lit by three cusped lancets. Main roof has shaped kneelers, ashlar gabled copings, terracotta ridge tiles and apex crosses. Interior not inspected. Conformist chapel of mirrored pair.

Listing NGR: SE1227748310

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26526294

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)