Hebburn Cemetery, mortuary gateway and chapels
Hebburn Cemetery, mortuary gateway and chapels
HER Number
8069
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Hebburn Cemetery, mortuary gateway and chapels
Place
Hebburn
Map Sheet
NZ36SW
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
Linked pair of chapels. 1890 by Frederick West, surveyor to Hedworth, Monkton
and Jarrow Burial Board. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; roof of Welsh
slate. Early English style, H-shaped plan. Tower with tall stone spire over
carriage arch has narrow lancets at first and open 2-light windows at second
stage. In arch are doors to corridors of 3 windows leading to chapels. East
elevations have 3 tall cusped lancets, the central with flowing tracery; hood
moulds with flower stops; buttresses and angle buttresses with gablets and coping
to set-backs. Roof of corridor has red-tiled ridge; the chapel roofs high-pitched
with stone gable coping; 2 ashlar chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2
and Jarrow Burial Board. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; roof of Welsh
slate. Early English style, H-shaped plan. Tower with tall stone spire over
carriage arch has narrow lancets at first and open 2-light windows at second
stage. In arch are doors to corridors of 3 windows leading to chapels. East
elevations have 3 tall cusped lancets, the central with flowing tracery; hood
moulds with flower stops; buttresses and angle buttresses with gablets and coping
to set-backs. Roof of corridor has red-tiled ridge; the chapel roofs high-pitched
with stone gable coping; 2 ashlar chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
430870
Northing
563840
Grid Reference
NZ430870563840
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 2/81; NECT, 2015, National Heritage at Risk Grade II Project