Ruined Chapel On West Side Of Church Hill

The ruined chapel on the west side of Church Hill is a mortuary chapel built in 1870. It is constructed from snecked rubble with roughly-tooled quoins and dressings, except for the ashlar south doorway. The chapel is roofless and designed in a Romanesque style, featuring a small rectangular shape. The south wall has a doorway adorned with chevron, pellets, and zigzag ornaments, with the upper parts of the jamb shafts and scalloped capitals still visible. There are round-arched chamfered windows in the south, west, and north walls, as well as similar paired lights in the east gable. The gables are steeply pitched and have moulded kneelers and coping, some of which have partially fallen. The chapel was built between 1869 and 1870 at a cost of 177.6 shillings and 3 pence, funded by public subscription, as part of a plan to reopen the cemetery on Church Hill, which is the site of the ancient parish church of St. Waleric, destroyed by a flood in 1806. The chapel is included for its historic interest.