Building record 5253/1/1 - Cemetery Chapel, Oundle Cemetery

The cemetery, including the chapels, was designed by Edward Browning and opened in 1859-60. The building comprises two chapels with a shared lobby; the west chapel was for Non-Conformists and the east chapel was for Church of England. The chapels were latterly used as storage space and have now been converted to residential use

{1} 3 acres with a mortuary chapel. Opened in 1859. The cemetery appears to still be there and intact complete with two chapels and cemetery lodge.

{2} A Level 2 building recording survey was carried out in 2014 prior to the chapel's conversion to residential use. The chapel comprises a former combined non-conformist and Anglican mortuary chapel set in a planned cemtery. Designed by the architect Edward Browning, it was constructed in Gothic Revival style and opened in 1859. the chapel is well-preserved externally, apart from the loss of the windows and south door, though the north door survives to demonstrate the original form. Internally, there are red and black quarry floor tiles throughout, plain plastered wall surfaces, ashlar stone dressings to all apertures and identical roof construction throughout. The original altar rail and bell survived in the CofE chapel.

<1> Ballinger J., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Oundle (Industrial), (checked) (Digital archive). SNN100257.

<2> Collins, T. & Waring, W., 2014, Oundle Cemetery Chapel, Stoke Doyle Road, Oundle, Northamptonshire: Historic Building Recording, 2014 (Report). SNN111665.

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Oct 1 2019 11:31AM