Chapels And Archway In St John'S Cemetery

The chapels and archway in St. John's Cemetery, built around 1856 by Johnstone and Knowles, are designed in the Gothic style. Constructed from snecked sandstone with an ashlar plinth and dressings, they feature graduated Lakeland slate roofs with overlapping stone gable copings. The archway, which has a crowning tower, is flanked by chapels. It includes a two-centred shafted arch beneath a pinnacled gable with a bracketed niche. The high octagonal tower is adorned with cusped lancets, pierced battlements, and corner pinnacles, topped by a tall octagonal spire with lucarnes and pierced bands. The extruded porches have two-centred-arched doors on the inner returns and two-light windows beneath pierced parapets. The chapels have similar windows in their three bays and four-light windows in the end gables. The steeply-pitched roofs are finished with stone cross finials.