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Description: Cemetery Chapel

Address: Cemetery Chapel Sowerby Bridge Cemetery Cemetery Lane Sowerby Bridge Calderdale

Grade: II

Group detail: Cemetery Lane (north end, off)

Full description:
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 iron-work 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 fleche 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.11.)