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© Mr Steve Kirkland
IoE Number:
477347
Location:
HAMPSTEAD CEMETERY MORTUARY CHAPELS, FORTUNE GREEN ROAD (west side)
HAMPSTEAD, CAMDEN, GREATER LONDON
Photographer:
Mr Steve Kirkland
Date Photographed:
02 October 2005
Date listed:
14 May 1974
Date of last amendment:
11 January 1999
Grade
II
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CAMDEN
TQ2485NE FORTUNE GREEN ROAD
798-1/23/488 (West side)
14/05/74 Hampstead Cemetery Mortuary Chapels
(Formerly Listed as:
HAMPSTEAD CEMETERY
Mortuary Chapels)
GV II
Linked Church of England (south) and Nonconformist (north)
mortuary chapels. 1875-6. By Charles Bell. Random Kentish rag
rubble with Bath stone dressings. Slate roofs. Symmetrical
composition of apsidal ended 4-bay chapels linked by a
porte-cochere in Decorated Gothic style. Chapels entered from
the porte-cochere. East ends with traceried 6-light pointed
windows flanked by angle buttresses with tall finials. Apsidal
west ends of 3 gabled bays each having 2-light traceried
windows and separated by buttresses. Porte-cochere a
rectangular plan tower with buttressed angles and pointed
archway above which blind arcading and a roundel in the
gables; surmounted by an octagonal belfry under arcading and
spire. Linked to chapels by 3-bay arcaded porticoes.
INTERIORS: each chapel with an arched brace roof on foliated
corbels; large chancel arches on well-carved demi-angels into
the apses. Church of England chapel with 3 good stained glass
windows designed by J Dudley Forsyth of Hampstead. Church of
England chapel now inter-denominational; Nonconformist chapel
used as a store.