Building record 15543 - Pair of Cemetery Chapels, Widnes Cemetery

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 56048 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Pair of chapels, 1897. Rock-faced red sandstone, H on plan, with cross wings and central tower. Slate roof with red crested tile ridge. Stone octagonal steeple to tower. Projecting plinth and ashlar corner buttresses. Main windows in Decorated style; tower and secondary windows are lancets. Labels to door and windows. Much stained glass. Modern glazed door to central tower entrance with Gothic head filled with reeded strips. Side doors are oak boarded with imitation strap hinges. At the rear of the cross wings there are octagonal apses with pyramid roofs and a modern wall filling the space between the apse projections. A Crematorium has been provided within this building without detracting from its original character.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1907-8, Ordnance Survey First Revision County Series (Epoch 2) 25 inch to 1 mile - Lancashire, SJ5187, 1907 (Maps and Plans). SCH7233.

This map depicts the chapels. They are labelled as mortuary chapels, the northern for Non-conformists, the southern for Church of England.

<3> Grainger, H, 2005, Death Redesigned: British Crematoria: History, Architecture and Landscape, p.497 (Book). SCH9184.

Converted to a crematorium in 1959.