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HER Number	MWB19620
Record Type	Building
Name	Mortuary Chapel, Bucklebury Cemetery

Grid Reference	SU 546 688
Map Sheet	SU56NW
Parish	Bucklebury, West Berkshire
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Summary

Locally listed late 19th century cemetery with its own chapel, used for inhumations and cremations of people of various faiths

Monument Type(s):

MORTUARY CHAPEL (Late 19th century to Cold War - 1885 AD to 1970 AD?)
MIXED CEMETERY (Late 19th century to Cold War - 1899 AD to 1970 AD?)

Full Description

Bucklebury Cemetery appears on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey mapping <1> as a square plot of land on Bucklebury Common, with a small rectangular building, a mortuary chapel, at its centre. The cemetery has been enlarged <2> and is still in use in the 21st century for the burial of inhumations and cremations of people of all faiths or none <3>.

The chapel and its original cemetery, within a square boundary wall, were added to the Local List of Heritage Assets in 2017 <6>. It was built in 1885 of rendered concrete with a clay tiled roof, and is largely unaltered, retaining its original fixtures and fittings.

Sources and further reading

<01>	Landmark. 1899-1900. Digital Ordnance Survey Mapping Epoch 2, 1:2500 (25 inch). Digital. 1:2500. [Map / SWB14455]
<02>	GeoInformation Group. 08/04/2003. West Berkshire Council Aerial Survey 2003 (digital aerial photographs). Aerial Photo. Digital. 1:7000. [Photograph / SWB146766]
<03>	Bucklebury Parish Council. 2011-. Bucklebury Parish Council website. [Website / SWB148127] http://www.buckleburyparish.org/ (Accessed 01/09/2016)
<04>	Millson, C. 1975. Bucklebury's Heritage. ?. [Monograph / SWB13010]
<05>	Greenaway, D. 2007. Around the Valley of the Pang. p116. [Monograph / SWB147222]
<06>	West Berkshire Council. 2015-. West Berkshire District Council in partnership with the West Berkshire Heritage Forum - Local List of Heritage Assets. pdf online. 17/00013/LOCAL. [Unpublished document / SWB148860] https://info.westberks.gov.uk/locallist (Accessed on 01/06/2022)
<07>	Peacock, D. 03/07/2016. Correspondence from David Peacock to West Berkshire HER about his research on James Money. 2016 WBC Network. 2. [Unpublished document / SWB149196]

Related Monuments

MWB4111

Bucklebury Village (Monument)

Associated Excavations and Fieldwork

None recorded

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