| Additional Information: | The Cambria Cemetery Memorial Chapel is situated at the extreme rear (east) end of the Cambria Cemetery. It is a small, front-gabled building finished with random, coursed lannon stone. The roof of this New-Gothic Revival chapel is covered with slate. The front (west) facade features a pointed-arch entrance portal surmounted by a traceried rose window. The entrance is composed of a pair of paneled wooden doors topped with a broad, pointed-arch, wooden screen. The side facades are nearly identical, displaying clinging buttresses and small, paired, pointed-arch windows with leaded glass. Stone corbelling enriches the side facades. A heavy, rectangular, stone chimney rises on the rear (east) facade.
Cambria Cemetery was established in 1863. Planning for the Memorial Chapel was initiated by the Cambria Shakespeare Club, which began a fund-raising campaign in late 1936. The cornerstone was laid in October 1938 and the chapel was dedicated on 28 May 1939.
2024 - The chapel is a roughly one-and-a-half-story, front gable building, clad with Lannon stone. The roof of this Gothic Revival chapel is covered with slate. The façade, facing west, features a Gothic arch entry, surmounted by a traceried rose window. The entrance is comprised of a pair of metal doors under a lancet-arch composite panel, adorned with a wooden cross. These doors and the panel above replaced a pair of paneled wood doors and a lancet-arch wood screen that were present when the building was first added to the WHPD in 2004. The north and south elevations are nearly identical. These elevations each have stepped buttresses as well as two pairs of pointed-arch windows with leaded glass. Additionally, the north and south elevations feature a smaller, rectangular window (with leaded glass) near the western end and an arched, secondary wood door near the eastern end. Relatively new basement windows, below-grade, are installed on the north and south elevations as well. Stone corbelling is situated beneath the roof along these elevations. A stone chimney rises on the rear elevation, between the main body of the chapel and a one-story wing that extends to the east from the northern half of the rear elevation. This rear elevation has three fixed, wooden, six-light windows, one of which is on the shorter wing. A cornerstone is located at the chapel’s southwestern corner and bears the inscription “MEMORIAL CHAPEL 1938”.
Despite the material changes to its doors and surrounds, this chapel maintains integrity of location, setting, design, association, workmanship, and other materials, for which it was previously identified as eligible for NRHP listing. |
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