Manchester Crematorium Southern Cemetery Chapel

The Manchester Crematorium Southern Cemetery Chapel, also known as the Old Chapel, is a crematorium chapel built in 1892 by Edward Salomons and A. Steinthall. It features buff terracotta and a tiled roof, with a rectangular plan oriented on a south-west to north-east axis. The entrance is located at the south-west end, and there is a chimney tower at the north-east corner. The building is designed in a basilican style with four main bays.

The gabled facade includes a projecting gabled porch that has a tall round-headed entrance arch supported by coupled columns, which feature slightly zig-zag fluting and heavily ornamented caps. The porch also has a panelled soffit, an enriched extrados, a Lombard frieze on the gable, and a square-headed inner doorway with a semi-circular tympanum. Above the porch, there is blind arcading with slender columns and heavily carved caps.

The sides of the chapel have arcaded cloisters, which are essentially aisles turned inside out, featuring round-headed arches on circular columns. The inner walls of these cloisters are lined with memorial plaques, and the roofs are hipped at the south end. Additionally, there is a pilastered clerestory with a Lombard frieze and three round-headed clerestory windows in each bay.

The tall chimney tower is square with pilastered corners and a short top stage that has arcaded three-light windows. It also features a Lombard frieze at the cornice and a steeply-pitched mansard roof with a segmental-pedimented vent on each side. A 20th-century processing plant is attached at the north-east corner. Inside, the walls are lined with memorial plaques, and the clerestory windows have detached shafts, while the roof is barrel-shaped.