Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
25840
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/10/2001
Date of Amendment
31/10/2001
Name of Property
Coychurch Cemetery Chapel of Remembrance
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Coychurch Lower
Town
Locality
Coychurch
Easting
293156
Northing
180215
Street Side
Location
Within the cemetery grounds between the entrance and the main chapel complex and joined to the latter by a conifer lined walkway.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Cemetery complex built in 1970 as the Mid Glamorgan Cemetery; architect Maxwell Fry of Fry Drew and Partners, engineer and surveyor Mansel Matthews, contractors Arthur Phillips and Son; stained glass by Timothy Lewis.
Exterior
A small circular chapel of roughly coursed rubble with concrete dressings and shallow pitched conical panelled metal roof surmounted by a finial with flame motif. It comprises 5 convex bays separated by full length stained glass windows in metal frames. Entrance bay has full height buttresses which together with the curved concrete lintel create a shallow porch, with matching curved step; phoenix motif above; plain glass panels in double doors give view of interior.
Interior
Interior has a central concrete and brass stand for a Book of Remembrance and 4 full length stained glass windows in metal frames of abstract design and strong colours representing the 4 seasons, the surrounds of stone and the bays between white rendered; wood block floor, painted conical ceiling.
Reason for designation
Listed as an integral part of the Cemetery complex, closely related spatially to the main chapel and as a strong building in its own right; group value with Capel Crallo and Capel Coity and Cemetery Entrance Gateway and Lodge.
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