Handsworth Cemetery Chapel - Sites and Monuments Record

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Date:1909 - 1910 (c.)

Description:Designed and built 1909-10 by WH Bidlake in an Arts and Crafts style. The Chapel is red brick in English bond; white stone dressings; slate roof. There are Six bays, the 4th wider than the others and creating miniscule transepts which have tall 3-light rather than tall 2-light windows. Polygonal turrets mark the transition from nave to apsidal East end. Two West towers with lanterns and spires and, between them, an octagonal space so arranged that half of it is without the chapel and half of it within, where it is glazed to form a West gallery. The inside of yellow stock brick with pink stone dressings. Lierne vault with richly carved bosses. A narrow ambulatory runs right round the chapel. Rainwater heads and benches etc all of good design and workmanship. Bidlake is buried in the cemetery in an unmarked grave.

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Creators: Digital Handsworth Project - Creator ,  Planning Dept - Creator

Image courtesy of: BCC Planning/ Sites and Monuments Record ,  Local Studies and History Department

Donor ref:B'ham City Council/ LSH & Sites and Monuments (28/3753)

Source: BCC Planning/ Sites and Monuments Record ,  Local Studies and History Department

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