Cemetery Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery (middle of three)

The Cemetery Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery, built in the late 1870s, is the central chapel in a matching set of three designed by architects Maxwell and Tuke. It is constructed from rock-faced sandstone and features a steeply-pitched slate roof adorned with bands of green slates and red ridging tiles, along with a chimney at the rear gable. The chapel is designed in the High Victorian Gothic style, characterized by a nave topped with a pinnacled steeple that rises from the west gable. The buttressed west end includes a large four-light window with plate tracery in the head, while the two-stage tower features coupled belfry louvres at the second stage, corner pinnacles, and a squat spire with gablets and lucarnes. On the north and south sides, there are moulded Tudor-arched doorways and three recessed windows, each with two cusped lights set in chamfered square surrounds. Inside, the chapel has a red brick narthex at the base of the tower and an arch-braced kingpost roof with curved struts.