Listed Building: ST MARGARET'S CEMETERY CHAPELS (1115753)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1357, 2, 174
Date assigned 02 December 1991
Date last amended

Description

The following entry:- ROCHESTER MAIDSTONE ROAD TQ 76 NW 2/174 St Margaret's Cemetery Chapels shall be amended to read:- TQ 76 NW ROCHESTER MAIDSTONE ROAD 2/174 St Margaret's Cemetery Chapels - II ROCHESTER MAIDSTONE ROAD TQ 76 NW 2/174 St Margaret's Cemetery Chapels Cemetery chapels. 1865, by Martin Bulmer, with 1920s addition to rear. Snecked ragstone rubble, flint dressings; Kent tiles and interlocking cement tile roof. High Victorian gothic style; Early English and Decorated style details. 2 gabled chapels, 2 carriage arches, central spire. 2 storey central tower and spire with gabled niche with single lancet to east and west, broaches at angles, octagonal second stage, weathered stone courses, octagonal bell chamber with quinquefoil headed arches with colonnettes and gabled heads, spire with metal finial and vane. 2 flanking segmental arched carriage porches with coped gables. Two almost identical gabled funerary chapels, one Anglican one Nonconformist, with set-off angle buttresses kneelers and coped gables. 3 light east and west windows with elaborate C14 style Decorated flowing tracery. Carriage porches have chamfered principals, boaded ceilings. Interiors of chapels not seen. Listing NGR: TQ7423067780

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7421 6721 (point)
Map sheet TQ76NW

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Record last edited

Nov 15 2006 5:35PM