York Cemetery Chapel

York Cemetery Chapel is a cemetery chapel designed by JP Pritchett in 1837 for The York Public Cemetery Company. It was restored from 1987 to 1992 for the York Cemetery Trust. The chapel is constructed of limestone ashlar from Roche Abbey and features a shallow pitched slate roof with stone copings.

The exterior consists of a one-storey seven-bay block set on a basement plinth. It has an Ionic tetrastyle portico that is accessed by three steps at the north side. The basement contains vaults, which are reached by steps leading down to a plain doorway at the rear, marked with the word "CATACOMBS" incised in the lintel. Other openings in the plinth are secured with iron grilles to provide light to the vaults. The pedimented portico, supported by fluted columns, has a plain entablature that extends around the entire building. At the rear of the portico, Doric antae flank double doors with moulded sunk panels in a moulded doorcase topped with a cornice. The returns of the building feature pedimented fronts with attached distyle in antis temple fronts of fluted Ionic columns. The rear and both returns also have tapered nine-pane windows set in raised eared architraves with sills.

Inside, the chapel is divided into three sections of seven bays by attached pilasters made of marbled wood with floret necking, standing on a high dado with a moulded rail. The doorcase is also made of marbled wood, and the window architraves mirror those on the exterior. The ceiling features a moulded cornice and is coffered with plain beams.