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:
Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Cemetery Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

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

Easting:
3087

Northing:
6384

Grid Reference:
NZ30876384

Lats/Lons:

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