Listed Buildings
in Stoke-on-Trent and area
Hartshill Cemetery
Chapels
Area
Hartshill |
Street
Queen's Road |
Heritage No.
69 A |
Grade
II |
Date Listed
15 March 1993 |
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Building:
Hartshill Cemetery Chapels |
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Location:
STOKE ON TRENT SJ8645SE
QUEEN'S ROAD, Hartshill |
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Description:
Two symmetrical Chapels
c.1850. Brick with plain tiled roof, Romanesque |
Two symmetrical
Chapels at Hartshill Cemetery
The two chapels,
Nonconformist on the left and CofE on the right
Cemetery chapels. Circa 1850 by Charles Lynam.
Brick with plain tiled roofs. Romanesque style,
symmetrically arranged with chapels linked by central arcade.
Chapels each have central tower clasped by gabled ranges on 2
sides with blank arcading and corbel table. Eastern gabled range
has projecting flat-roofed porch with round-arched entrance.
Rose window over porch. Paired round arched
windows in side elevation, and in return range linking with
central arcade. Continuous stone and moulded brick sill bands,
and brick corbel table. Central arcade of 4 bays, round arches
carried on shafts, with flat roof over.
There was a dispute about the
number of cemetery chapels to be built.
Letters were printed in the Staffordshire
Sentinel advocating one chapel for all religious denominations in
order to save public money and a public meeting was held to discuss
the subject at Stoke Town Hall. At a subsequent council meeting some
councillors proposed that the ratepayers should be balloted on this
question. Instead the council accepted a petition from the
churchwardens at St Peter’s church that there should be one chapel
“for church people” and another for “dissenters” and by 14 votes to
7 agreed to build two chapels without consulting the ratepayers.
The decision was not unexpected since Colin
Minton Campbell, the mayor, and most of the prominent members of the
borough council were strong supporters of the Church of England.
detail of the
left hand chapel
Rose window over porch
photos:
Steve Birks 2000
The architect of the cemetery buildings was
Charles Lynam who lived at “The Quarry” on corner of Hartshill
Road and Quarry Road. He had a virtual monopoly of the
architectural commissions awarded by local public bodies,
including the Stoke-upon-Trent Board of Guardians, the North
Staffordshire Infirmary, and Stoke-upon-Trent Borough Council.
The chapels c.1900
originally there was a tower on top of
each chapel - these were removed when
they became derelict and unsafe.
on
Charles Lynam
a
"walk" around Hartshill Cemetery
  
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