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Deans Grange Cemetery — Deans Grange Road

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Deans Grange Cemetery — Deans Grange Road
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Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Catholic mortuary chapel, built 1863-4, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (west) front. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), crested cast-iron ridges, cut-granite "slated" coping to gables with Cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part ivy-covered snecked granite walls with buttresses including clasping buttresses to corners (west) or diagonal buttresses to corners (porch) having cut-granite "slated" coping. Trefoil-headed "arrow loop" window openings with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (east) with cut-granite "slated" sills, and cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch door opening with cut-granite threshold, and cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding on monolithic label stops framing timber panelled double doors. Interior including vestibule (west) with granite flagged floor; pointed-arch door opening into nave; full-height interior open into roof with central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, stepped dais to sanctuary (east) with "Christogram"-detailed timber panelled altar below "Trinity Window", and exposed strutted collared timber roof construction on cut-granite corbels with wind braced rafters to timber boarded ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds.

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