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| HER Number: | MDV96077 |
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| Name: | Cemetery Lodge, Bear Street Cemetery, Barnstaple |
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Summary
Lodge built in 1856 for the Barnstaple Burial Board. It was designed by town surveyor, Richard Davie Gould.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SS 566 333 |
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| Map Sheet: | SS53SE |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Barnstaple |
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| District | North Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | BARNSTAPLE |
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Protected Status
Other References/Statuses: none recorded
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- CEMETERY LODGE (XIX to XXI - 1856 AD to 2013 AD (Between))
Full description
Ordnance Survey, 2013, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV350786.
English Heritage, 2013, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV350785.
Bear Street (North side) Cemetery Lodge.
Cemetery lodge. 1856. To the designs of Richard Davie Gould (Brooks). For the Barnstaple Burial Board. Snecked local stone rubble with bathstone dressings; slate roof with some surviving crested ridge tiles; stacks with stone shafts with ashlar quoins. Tudor style. L-plan lodge, fronting Bear Street and built within the cemetery walls. C20 bathroom addition to rear in angle between the 2 blocks. 2 storeys. Picturesque roofscape with coped gables; stone copings to chimney shafts. Stone mullioned windows with chamfered mullions, mostly with transoms. Asymmetrical 3-window range, gabled to the front at the right with a tall, gabled bellcote in the centre and a gabled half-dormer to the left. Central plank front door with big strap hinges in stone shouldered doorway with pyramid stops. Square 3-light bay window to left with hipped slate roof. Canted bay window to right of front door. 2-light windows to first floor with slit window below bellcote. Other elevations preserve some original windows.
Interior: not inspected.
Historical Note: the cemetery was founded by the Barnstaple Burial Board in 1856. RD Gould was the town surveyor. An unusually tall and ambitious adaptation of the Tudor style for a cemetery chapel. (Brooks C: Mortal Remains: Exeter: 1989-: 119).
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV350785 | National Heritage List for England: English Heritage. 2013. National Heritage List for England. Historic Houses Register. Digital. |
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| SDV350786 | Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 2013. MasterMap. Ordnance Survey Digital Mapping. Digital. [Mapped feature: #109974 ] |
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Associated Monuments
| MDV104807 | Part of: Bear Street Cemetery, Barnstaple (Monument) |
| MDV96078 | Related to: East Chapel, Bear Street Cemetery, Barnstaple (Building) |
| MDV96080 | Related to: Gate Piers and Gates to Bear Street Cemetery, Barnstaple (Building) |
| MDV96079 | Related to: West Chapel, Bear Street Cemetery, Barnstaple (Building) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | Aug 29 2013 12:29PM |
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