Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
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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