Tyne and Wear HER(8812): Jesmond Road, All Saints Cemetery, mortuary chapels - Details
8812
Newcastle
Jesmond Road, All Saints Cemetery, mortuary chapels
Jesmond
NZ26NE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Place of Worship
Cemetery Chapel
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Extant Building
2 chapels. 1856 by Green. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar turrets and
dressings; Welsh slate roofs. T-plan with additional porch on side away from
centre of cemetery, and corner turret on innermost side at south end. Aligned
north-south. Decorated style. Double doors, with elaborate hinges,on inner fronts
have nook shafts and head-stopped dripmoulds; similar surround to plainer door
in outward-facing porch; windows of 3 lights facing gateway, 2 lights on other
fronts, have similar dripmoulds. Lancets to corner turrets with gabled belfry
under octagonal spirelets. Buttresses. Steeply-pitched roofs with cross finials. LISTED GRADE 2
425790
565670
NZ425790565670
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 9/331; Alan Morgan, 2004, Beyond the Grave - Exploring Newcastle's Burial Grounds, p 66