Cemetery Chapels

The cemetery chapels, built around 1865 for the Southport Improvement Commissioners, are a pair of structures connected by cloisters and a clock tower. The chapels are constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and feature slate roofs with some areas of polychrome fish-scaling. They are designed in the High Victorian Gothic style.

The layout is linear, oriented on a north-west to south-east axis, with a central tower that links to the chapels through short cloisters. The chapels are positioned at right angles to the main axis and each has a parallel narthex or antechurch.

The exterior presents a striking symmetrical design, highlighted by a tall, narrow central tower. This tower consists of three unequal stages, with buttresses that taper into the second stage and a steeply-gabled saddle-back top. It features a two-centred open archway with stiff-leaf colonnettes, a steep gablet adorned with a coloured tile, a band of similar tiles, and a tall two-light louvred lancet window in the second stage, which includes multi-foil and trefoil designs in the head along with a hoodmould. The gable above the clock-face is coped and flanked by small set-back turrets or chimneys.

The cloisters are characterized by low arcaded windows with three two-centred arched lights and roofs made of green and purple fishscale slates. The chapels and their narthexes feature short buttresses, with roofs that slope down to a low level, finished with stepped coping and apex crosses. Each chapel has large two-centred arched four-light windows, complete with a moulded sill band and hoodmould, though the tracery varies between them. The narthexes have segmental-pointed archways with hoodmoulds that lead into recessed porches with similar inner doorways.

The interior was not inspected. The chapels form a group with the Eliza Fernley Lifeboat monument and a former Roman Catholic chapel located approximately 70 meters to the north.