Jesmond Road, All Saints Cemetery, mortuary chapels
Jesmond Road, All Saints Cemetery, mortuary chapels
HER Number
8812
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Jesmond Road, All Saints Cemetery, mortuary chapels
Place
Jesmond
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Cemetery Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
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
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
Easting
425790
Northing
565670
Grid Reference
NZ425790565670
Sources
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