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West Mortuary Chapel in Blackhill Cemetery

A Grade II Listed Building in Consett, County Durham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8604 / 54°51'37"N

Longitude: -1.8445 / 1°50'40"W

OS Eastings: 410081

OS Northings: 551743

OS Grid: NZ100517

Mapcode National: GBR HDK7.GH

Mapcode Global: WHC46.M3W9

Plus Code: 9C6WV564+56

Entry Name: West Mortuary Chapel in Blackhill Cemetery

Listing Date: 21 January 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1261051

English Heritage Legacy ID: 438829

ID on this website: 101261051

Location: Benfieldside Cemetery, Blackhill, County Durham, DH8

County: County Durham

Electoral Ward/Division: Consett North

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Consett

Traditional County: Durham

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham

Church of England Parish: Consett

Church of England Diocese: Durham

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Description


NZ 15 SW CONSETT DURHAM ROAD

(South side)
Blackhill
6/35 West Mortuary
Chapel in Blackhill
Cemetery
GV II
Mortuary chapel, now Parks and Cemeteries Department store-room. 1876.
Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins; Welsh slate
roof with stone gable copings. T-plan; Decorated style. Aligned north-south;
nave and ritual north transept, with porch in angle between. Gable to front
has diagonally-boarded double doors in cusped, 2-centred arch with shafted,
moulded surround; dripmould continuous with string on flanking coped buttresses;
large wheel window above has central star-of-David tracery; small lancet in
gable peak. Porch has open arch and blind trefoil; bell turret at left of main
gable has shouldered cusped lights under brattished parapet. Steeply-pitched
stone coping below belfry with cusped gabled arcade and octagonal spire with
patterned bands and wrought-iron finial.
Right return has 4 spherical-triangular lights with varied tracery in panels,
the bays defined by buttresses; large 4-light traceried rear window; left
transept has 2-light gable window with cusped plate tracery. Steeply-pitched
roofs have elaborate stone cross finials, one missing; and gabled kneelers.


Listing NGR: NZ1008151743

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