Mortuary Chapel At Hatfield Cemetery

HATFIELD CEMETERY ROAD SE 60 NE (west eider off) 11/30 Mortuary Chapel at Hatfield Cemetery II Mortuary chapel. 1884 by Edwin Dolby of Abingdon (Kelly's Directory p.450) Thinly-coursed, rock-faced sandstone with ashlar limestone dressings; graduated Westmorland slate roof. Single-storey, single-cell; sides symmetrical with gabled entrances, eastern apse; Gothic Revival stifle. South side: entrance gable breaks forward and has chamfered plinth and moulded band continuing round apse on right. Moulded, pointed-arched doorway with hoodmould returning to link to gable kneelers; blank shield over arch with embattled string to each side. To left end a diagonal buttress with 2 single-light windows on its right having cusped panelled heads beneath square hoodmoulds linked to eaves cornice. Apse on right of doorway has similar windows of 2-lights set beneath higher eaves. Ashlar copings to left (west) gable with ashlar end stack set to rear of ridge. Octagonal flèche on ridge above doorway with cusped side openings and leaded roof with weathervane. Left return (west end): 3-light window with cambered head.

Interior; plain brick with ashlar dressings; exposed queen-post trusses. Edwin Dolby was also the architect responsible for the 1862 restoration of Thorne Church of St. Nicholas (q.v.).

Kelly's Directory, West Riding, 1889.

Listing NGR: SE6724109022