Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Borough Cemetery, Barrow-in-Furness


	Borough Cemetery, Barrow-in-Furness
	Borough Cemetery
Street:-	Devonshire Road
civil parish:-	Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	buildings
coordinates:-	SD19997073
1Km square:-	SD1970
10Km square:-	SD17
references:-	Listed Buildings 2010

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Borough Cemetery Gate House
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "BOROUGH CEMETERY GATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS / / DEVONSHIRE ROAD / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388437 / SD1999070734" etc.
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Cemetery gatehouse with attached railings. Dated 1874. By Paley and Austin (plan), altered. Coursed limestone with red sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. 2-storey, 3-bay centre with 1-storey, 2-window office in side wing on left and 2-storey lodge on right of same width but with wing to rear; attached railings are set in quadrants to each side and return to line pavement. Romanesque. Chamfered plinth, quoins. Tall central carriage arch recessed between pedestrian side gates: each opening has keeled arches of 2 orders linked by impost string course; original iron gates. 2 bands and 1st floor sill band beneath blind arcading with taller central window; outer bays have larger windows in 2-order arches. Band beneath parapet with triangular copings built up in 2 courses. Hipped roof with a multiple-flue ashlar stack to each end; terracotta ridge cresting. Office wing on left: buttress against left return; paired windows with colonnettes and impost string course; coped end gable. Lodge on right: similar but taller, no 1st floor windows to front. Rear: 2 dated rain-water heads; office has shallow, canted bay-window. Ribbed vaulting within the archway, 2-bay arcades and barrel vaults to each side. Railings: panels are fixed between sandstone piers rising from dwarf walls; the railings have square bars, twin top rails and finials of 2 heights. Surviving drawings dated November 1873 show a central bell tower with spire; this and some other architectural details (shafts, mouldings) have since been removed. (Building Plans Register: 1873-: NO.520)."

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "GATEWAY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO BOROUGH CEMETERY AT NORTH LODGE / / DEVONSHIRE ROAD / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388439 / SD2008471024"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Gateway and attached railings. c1874. Iron railings and gates; limestone piers; red sandstone dwarf wall with intermediate piers. Vehicle entrance and pedestrian side gate; 3 panels of railings in curve to right; 4 panels to left forming front boundary to North Lodge (qv). Gate piers: chamfered, square-section with pyramidal tops. Gates: square bars, with scrolls above the dog bars and between twin top rails; cresting finials of 2 heights; scrolled stiles. Railing panels in same style. Included for group value only."

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Ramsden Vault
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "RAMSDEN VAULT IMMEDIATELY EAST OF CREMATORIUM (NOT INCLUDED) AT BOROUGH CEMETERY / / DEVONSHIRE ROAD / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388440 / SD2003871186"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Family vault in cemetery. c1886 (Kellett). For the Ramsden family. Red ashlar sandstone. Built into bank; single doorway in buttressed front wall. Gothic Revival style. Oak door with decorative ironwork and scrolled grill. Moulded arch and hoodmould with ram's head keystone; parapet with roll-moulded copings. Flanking buttresses have double-chamfered plinths, offsets and arms of Ramsden and the Borough beneath roll-moulded gablets. Interred here is Sir James Ramsden, founding father of modern Barrow; knighted 1872, d.19.10.1896. Ramsden had the vault built some 10 years before his death. (Kellett J: Barrow's Man of Vision: Ulverston, Cumbria: 1990-: 58)."

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY CHAPEL AT BOROUGH CEMETERY / / DEVONSHIRE ROAD / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388441 / SD1995071396"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Cemetery chapel now store. Dated 1872. Probably by Paley and Austin. Irregular limestone walling with red sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. Cruciform plan with crossing tower; Romanesque. Chamfered plinth; quoined angle buttresses. Entrance in west gable has double doors with decorative iron hinges in 3-order arch with colonnettes and zig-zag ornament; impost string course rises as hoodmould; window over also has zig-zag. Windows to each return are set on continuous string courses and linked by impost bands. Transepts have tall central light flanked by pairs of blind windows with colonnette mullions. East window of 3 lights, the central light taller with hoodmould carried over the side lights as a string course. Lobed eaves band; chamfered gable copings with apex cross at east end and twin flue stack rising from south transept; terracotta ridge cresting. Crossing tower rises from square base to become octagonal and has leaded window in each side and columns at the angles; carved corbel table and lobed band at eaves of steep hipped roof with finial." "INTERIOR: red/blue floor tiles; yellow brick wall lining. Crossing has semi-circular responds with carved capitals to arches with nailhead ornament."

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