Nonconformist Chapel In Manchester Southern Cemetery

The Nonconformist Chapel in Manchester Southern Cemetery is a cemetery chapel built in 1879. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble and features slate roofs with red cockscomb ridge tiles, showcasing a Gothic style. The chapel has a nave oriented on a north-south axis, with a south-east tower that includes a porch and a north-east vestry.

The short nave is supported by angle buttresses and has a 2-centred arched window in the south gable wall, along with a cusped single-light window in the east wall. The tower, which is to the left, consists of four stages that are successively set back, culminating in an octagonal top stage with a short spire. This stage features a 2-centred arched doorway with a chamfered surround and gablet, corner pilasters above this level, a small lancet window on the short third stage, louvred 2-light belfry windows at the top, and pseudo-gargoyles at the corners.

The low gabled vestry has angle buttresses, a cusped lancet window in the gable wall, and a chimney that rises from the junction with the nave. Together with the Church of England chapel and the Roman Catholic chapel, this chapel forms part of an intact set of three cemetery chapels that, while varied in form, share a matching style.