Eastern Mortuary Chapel At Lancaster Cemetery

The Eastern Mortuary Chapel at Lancaster Cemetery is a Grade II listed building, part of a group of three chapels designed for Nonconformists and built by Edward Paley when the cemetery opened in 1855. Constructed from coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and topped with a slate roof, the chapel is designed in the Gothic Revival style and features a cruciform plan with a west-facing entrance porch.

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