Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
31/01/1994
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994
Name of Property
Cemetey Chapels
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Location
Situated just inside the entrance gates of the cemetery on Ruabon Road.
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
History
The cemetery was established 1874-6 and its layout was by Yeaman Strachan, with William Turner as architect of the lodge and chapels.
Exterior
Random rock-faced rubble with ashlar dressings and banded slate roof with terracotta cresting. Central archway with tower and spire above, flanked by symmetrical chapels.
Heavily moulded archway in gable set against base of tower, which has clasping buttresses and paired Early English bell chamber lights. Heavy broach spire with 2 pierced quatrefoils bands and cross finials. Flanking chapels each have 3-light east (liturgical) window with geometrical tracery. 3 bays, divided by buttresses, each with foiled single light window. Small vestries project from inner sides, with paired windows to east.
Reason for designation
Group value with cemetery lodge, and gate-piers, gates and railings.
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