Former Chapel Adjacent To Main Entrance At Salford Northern Cemetery

The former chapel adjacent to the main entrance at Salford Northern Cemetery is a disused cemetery chapel built in 1903 by Sharpe & Foster. It features rock-faced stone with red sandstone ashlar dressings and a clay tile roof. The building is designed in a Free Gothic style with Arts and Crafts influences, comprising a nave, a west tower, a north porch, and a porte-cochère at the east end.

The three-bay nave has a projecting plinth, weathered buttresses, and windows on two levels. The lower level contains lancet windows set below blind arches, while the upper level features arched and traceried three-light windows. The gabled porch is located at the base of the four-stage tower, which has a square stair turret at one corner. The tower includes two three-light basket-arched mullion and transom windows beneath pointed hoodmoulds, a diminished second stage with six-light curvilinear tracery windows on each side, clock faces on the third stage with oriel projections, and an unusual timber top stage set back behind a parapet, complete with gables and openings with pierced panels in naturalistic forms. The porte-cochère is castellated and enclosed, except for double gates to the north and south.

Inside, the chapel boasts impressive tie-beam roof trusses with heavy carving, brattished enrichment, open-arcaded vertical members, and diagonal braces. The nave extends into the tower, separated only by an arch. There are three arches at the east end, with the central arch forming a reredos and the others leading to the porte-cochère. The interior also features stained glass, timber pews, and original light fittings.