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Cemetery Chapel

A Grade II Listed Building in Knutsford, Cheshire East

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.3119 / 53°18'42"N

Longitude: -2.3973 / 2°23'50"W

OS Eastings: 373622

OS Northings: 379511

OS Grid: SJ736795

Mapcode National: GBR CZP4.SH

Mapcode Global: WH997.40NW

Plus Code: 9C5V8J63+Q3

Entry Name: Cemetery Chapel

Listing Date: 27 May 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1388428

English Heritage Legacy ID: 476439

ID on this website: 101388428

Location: Tabley Hill Cemetery, Cheshire East, Cheshire, WA16

County: Cheshire East

Civil Parish: Knutsford

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Over Tabley St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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Description



KNUTSFORD

SJ77NW TABLEY ROAD
792-1/1/105 (North side)
Cemetery Chapel

II

Cemetery chapel. 1901. By Robert J McBeath. Random rusticated
rubble with pink ashlar dressings and red plain tiled roof.
PLAN: octagonal chapel with rectangular gables at 3 cardinal
points, and a tower at the east which forms entrance porch.
EXTERIOR: tower has battered base with clasping buttresses,
and battered octagonal upper stage with spirelet carried over
timber lantern recessed behind parapet. 2-light plate
traceried window in the lower stage, and string course with
gargoyles. Doorway in base of tower with cast-iron gates to
porch in moulded and chamfered archway. Tower is balanced by
high, buttressed gable to the west, and all 3 gables have
plate traceried windows, with rose windows in the main walls
of the chapel which has scalloped eaves cornice.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
An inventive and original design.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Cheshire: Harmondsworth:
1971-: 251).

Listing NGR: SJ7362279511

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