Cemetery Chapel, Sowerby Bridge
Description: Cemetery Chapel
Grade: II
Date Listed: 19 July 1988
English Heritage Building ID: 339154
OS Grid Reference: SE0519023650
OS Grid Coordinates: 405190, 423650
Latitude/Longitude: 53.7093, -1.9228
Location: Cemetery Lane, Halifax, Calderdale HX6 1EL
Locality: Sowerby Bridge
Local Authority: Calderdale
County: West Yorkshire
Country: England
Postcode: HX6 1EL
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Listing Text
SOWERBY BRIDGE CEMETERY LANE
SE 0423 & SE 0523
(north end, off)
12/31
Cemetery Chapel
- II
Cemetery Chapel. Mid-late C19. Coursed dressed stone, large slates to
roof, lead cupola. Cruciform plan with north porch and central fleche. Gothic
style with rectilinear tracery. Off-set diagonal buttresses continuous
stepped roll-moulded band below windows. Porch: shouldered-arched double-
door with decorative ironwork and oculus above all in pointed-arched surround.
Above porch, in gable, a spherical triangle window with head-stopped hoodmould.
West and east gables each have a 3-light window with head-stopped hoodmould.
South gable has a large circular window with star-shaped cusped tracery
and head-stopped hoodmould. Kneelers, ashlar copings and gable finials
throughout. South gable with octagonal chimney. Central octagonal flèche
has glazed, traceried sides and rises as broached, ribbed spire with lucarnes
and weathervane. This was the non-conformist chapel, a similar Anglican
chapel formerly standing to the north-west (1919 OS Map Sheet CCXXX.ll).
Listing NGR: SE0519023650
Source: English Heritage
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