Western Mortuary Chapel At Lancaster Cemetery

The Western Mortuary Chapel at Lancaster Cemetery is a Grade II listed building, part of a group of three mortuary chapels built to serve Lancaster Cemetery, which opened in 1855 for Anglicans. Designed by Edward Paley, the chapel is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. It is designed in the Gothic Revival style and has a cruciform plan, with an entrance porch facing east.

Architectural details include angle buttresses, coped gables, and a continuous string course at window sill level. The north and south windows are triple stepped lancets with shafts and hoodmoulds, while the west gable features a wheel window. The porch has arcaded openings on its north and south walls, each consisting of four chamfered lancet arches supported by limestone shafts with foliated capitals. The outer porch doorways are moulded and pointed, with the inner orders resting on foliated corbels. The porch gable is topped with a poppy head finial, and the main gable above has a cross finial.