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Lodge to Cemetary

A Grade II Listed Building in Offa, Wrexham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0387 / 53°2'19"N

Longitude: -3.0049 / 3°0'17"W

OS Eastings: 332715

OS Northings: 349523

OS Grid: SJ327495

Mapcode National: GBR 75.DNKL

Mapcode Global: WH88Y.TW89

Plus Code: 9C5R2XQW+F2

Entry Name: Lodge to Cemetary

Listing Date: 31 January 1994

Last Amended: 31 January 1994

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 1808

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300001808

Location: Situated immediately inside the gates of the cemetery on Ruabon Road.

County: Wrexham

Community: Offa

Community: Offa

Built-Up Area: Wrexham

Traditional County: Denbighshire

Tagged with: Gatehouse

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History

The cemetery was established 1874-6 and its layout was by Yeaman Strachan, with William Turner as architect of the lodge and chapels.

Exterior

Rock faced random rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roof with terracotta cresting and finials. 2 storeyed, L-plan with gabled porch in angle with left hand wing. Shallow segmentally arched doorway and pierced bargeboards to porch gable. 3-light wood mullioned and transomed window with small upper panes on each floor in the gable of this wing, with half-hipped roof over. Similar windows in north-facing gable, and in rear. Axial and end wall stacks.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with cemetery chapels, and gates, gatepiers and railings to cemetery.

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