Description

TQ 2382 SE HARROW ROAD W10
249/80/140 KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY

15-APR-1969 The Dissenters' Chapel

(Formerly Listed as:
HARROW ROAD W10
KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY
Non Conformist Mortuary Chapel)

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Dissenters' Chapel and catacombs. 1831-34. By John Griffith, Surveyor to the General Cemetery Company. Portland stone, rendered brick walls. Ionic tetrastyle portico with pediment, flanked by curving three-bay wings with paired pilasters to front and twin Ionic columns in antis to ends; memorial tablets on walls of wings. Interior: east wall articulated with pilasters; pine reading desk and pews. Modern single-storey extension to rear of north wing. Catacombs (partly sealed) below the chapel. History: the first purpose-built Nonconformist funerary chapel in a public cemetery. The wings were demolished in the early 1970s and reinstated in 1995-97 by English Heritage: see The Architects' Journal 9th April 1998,40-41.
Bibliography
6478 Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England (English Heritage), Part 17 Greater London

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Dissenters' Chapel, Kensal Green at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5282760

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)