West Chapel In South Part Of Overleigh Cemetery

The West Chapel, located in the southern part of Overleigh Cemetery, is a Church of England cemetery chapel that has been converted into an Orthodox church. Built in the early 20th century, it features stone-dressed hard red brick and a grey-green slate roof, designed in the style of John Douglas.

The chapel has a rectangular plan that includes a north aisle adjacent to a northwest tower, which contains a porch, and a small south outshut with a lean-to roof. The exterior showcases a three-stage tower topped with a broach spire and stepped buttresses. The open porch in the tower features a west archway and double boarded doors leading into the nave and aisle, which have a cross-beamed boarded ceiling.

The nave is highlighted by a five-light bluntly-pointed west window with panel tracery, and there are crosses on the porch arch and the nave gable. The second stage of the tower includes an ogee light on the west, north, and east sides, while the clock stage features a stone dial on the north and a two-light window flanked by stone panels, with blank panel tracery on the west, south, and east.

The north aisle has two three-light windows with blank panel tracery in rectangular openings, along with an arched two-light panel-traceried window beneath the north window in the east bay. There is also a pair of boarded bier doors in an archway to the east. The east window of the aisle has a bluntly-pointed arch and five-light panel tracery, topped with a gable cross. The south outshut includes a boarded door on its east face, a rectangular window with three basket-arched lights and another with two lights on its south face, and a boarded door in an arch on the west side. Additionally, there is a segmental-arched three-light panel-tracery window in the nave, with a blank west bay opposite the tower porch. The interior has not been inspected.