Cemetery Chapel In South Cave Cemetery

The Cemetery Chapel in South Cave Cemetery, built between 1873 and 1874, is a Grade II listed building. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with red brick and ashlar dressings, topped with a red fishscale tile roof featuring moulded ridge tiles and a cross finial. The chapel has a single cell apsidal plan and includes a double chamfered brick plinth, angle buttresses with set-offs, cill and impost brick bands, and decorated brick eaves.

The west front features a large three-light pointed arch window with ashlar geometrical tracery, above which are two ashlar corbels supporting a tall gabled bellcote with a pointed arch opening. The north front has a central projecting gabled porch with a double chamfered pointed arch doorway and plank doors, flanked by two single two-light pointed arch windows with ashlar geometrical tracery. The apsidal east front contains three similar single windows, with buttresses between them. The south front includes a projecting gabled porch on the left with a double chamfered brick entrance arch, and to the right, there are two single two-light pointed arch windows with ashlar geometrical tracery.