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| Egremont Cemetery, Egremont | ||
| Egremont Cemetery | ||
| Street:- | North Road | |
| locality:- | Egremont | |
| civil parish:- | Egremont (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | cemetery | |
| coordinates:- | NY00871149 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0011 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY01 | |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "EASTERN CHAPEL IN CEMETERY / / NORTH ROAD / EGREMONT / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76135 / NY0091011531" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Chapel, being renovated at time of survey (Jan. 1984); c1864. Rough-dressed coursed, squared, rubble on chamfered plinth; buttresses. Steeply-pitched graduated slate roof with gabled bellcote to south end; stone copings and kneelers to gables. Latin Cross plan; single tall storey, 3 bays. Lower vestry to centre on east side. North and south ends each have a door, with pointed head, under a shallow, gabled porch; south porch has single, squat, polished granite column, with foliate capital, to each jamb. Single-light windows with cusped heads except for projecting central west bay which has large, traceried, window." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 item:- Roberts Monument |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "MONUMENT TO JOSEPH ROBERTS, BETWEEN CEMETERY CHAPELS / / NORTH ROAD / EGREMONT / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76137 / NY0088911538" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Monument. Inscription dated 1866; erected in memory of Joseph Roberts of Egremont (died 1861), a local benefactor. Masons' signature on east side of plinth: W &J EILBECK EGREMONT. Stone. Decorated Gothic style, square in plan, c10 ft high. Moulded plinth on 2 steps. Clustered shafts with foliate capitals to corners; inscription on cusped panel to each face. Gabled top has crockets and apex crosses; surmounted by octagon, carried on columns, with apex cross to tapered finial." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "WESTERN CHAPEL IN CEMETERY / / NORTH ROAD / EGREMONT / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76136 / NY0087011550" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Chapel, used as equipment store at time of survey (Jan. 1984); c1864. Rough-dressed coursed, squared, rubble on chamfered plinth; buttresses. Steeply-pitched graduated slate roof; stone copings to gables have kneelers and apex crosses. Latin Cross plan; single tall storey, 3 bays. Lower vestry to centre on west side. North and south ends each have a door, with pointed head, under a shallow gabled porch; south porch has single, squat, polished granite column, with foliate capital, to each jamb. Single-light windows with cusped heads except for projecting central east bay which has large, traceried, window." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "LODGE, QUADRANT WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO CEMETERY ENTRANCE / / NORTH ROAD / EGREMONT / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76134 / NY0086911486" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Entrance lodge, dated 1864 over door. Rough-dressed, coursed rubble with quoins on chamfered plinth. Graduated slate roof with stone copings, kneelers, and finials to gables. 2 storeys, 3 bays, built at right-angles to road. Central gabled porch has part-glazed door in surround with 4-centred head. Window to each side and 1st floor right. South return has 2-storey bay window. All windows sashes without glazing bars, in chamfered surrounds. Coursed rubble wall adjoins south-west corner; c7 ft high with moulded coping. Gate piers square in plan, c10 ft high, with moulded plinth and corniced cap. Cast-iron gates have cusped quatrefoils to lower sections and fleurs-de-lis to top rail." |
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