The old chapel in Moorgate Cemetery, Rotherham
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The old chapel in Moorgate Cemetery, Rotherham
Image: © Neil Theasby Taken: 17 Aug 2014
Erected in the mid nineteenth century when the dead of Rotherham were no longer permitted in the old graveyard that once surrounded the parish church. This has been said of the chapel - "At the bottom of a gentle slope a chapel was erected, described as having small paned Romanesque windows, cruciform finials and square spikelets. The chapel had an entrance at each end and a central partition which enabled use by both Anglicans and Nonconformists. Nonconformists entered the chapel by the front entrance and the Anglicans by the rear entrance."
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Image Location
Latitude
53.42026
Longitude
-1.353542