Mausoleum/Mortuary Chapel 90 Metres North Of Yew Trees

This small mausoleum or mortuary chapel, dated 1877, is located 90 metres north of Yew Trees in Lartington. It was built for Monsignor Thomas Witham of Lartington Hall. The structure features rock-faced masonry and leaded roofs, with a square, single-cell plan.

The exterior includes stepped clasping buttresses and a pair of 3-panel doors set in a splayed round-arched doorway. This doorway has a roll-moulded hoodmould and a projecting keystone inscribed with "TW 1877." The doorway is flanked by stepped pilasters that have been partly cut away to accommodate red sandstone colonnettes. These pilasters are topped with statuettes of St. Peter on the left and St. Paul on the right, with a raised cross positioned above the keystone. The building has a wood eaves cornice and a low-pitched hipped roof, which is topped by a glazed lantern with a leaded pyramidal roof. At the rear, there is a slightly projecting bay that features three stepped round-headed lancets.

Inside, the walls are lined with Caen stone and include carvings by Messrs. Priestman and Sons of Darlington. This chapel is significant as a mortuary chapel within a private Catholic cemetery.