Description

The following building shall be added to the list;

SU 65 SW BASINGSTOKE CHAPEL HILL

2/60 Lodge (The Old Cemetery
Cottage), entrance
gateway and screen
walls of Chapel Hill
Cemetery

II

Lodge, entrance gateway and bridge and screen walls of cemetery. Mid/Late
C19. Knapped flint with limestone dressings, mathematical tiles over
timber framing, slate roof. The entrance gateway has a bridge over with
screen walls fanning out and lodge to left. Gothic style.

Lodge has 3 bay front to entrance, outer ones gabled with turret between.
Two storeys on basement. Flint below, mathematical tiles above. Two
light window and door to left, both covered by wooden verandah. Doorway
to right flanked by windows. Above is a 2 light window, a stepped 3 light
window and a 4 light window all with eaded lattice glazing. Gables with
carved bargeboards, central spire between. The right hand gable has two
projections on wooden brackets. Road elevation has external stack with
offsets and brick top, similar at rear of right gable. Single storey
rear wing to left. The lodge is set on a bruttressed screen wall with
flight of steps.

Entrance gateway is formed by a cast iron bridge on chequerwork piers,
decorative cast iron gates between. The piers are pierced by pointed
arches, the right hand one has a room within lit by lancet windows.

Screen walls. That to left is under the lodge (see above) that to right
is curved and buttressed and retains a grass bank.

The cemetery was opened in 1858 and had two chapels designed by Paulton
and Woodman of Reading. This may be relevant to this building.

Listing NGR: SU6223851421

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26567535

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)