Cemetery Chapel At Crookes Cemetery

The cemetery chapel, located within Crookes Cemetery, was built in 1908 and altered in the mid-20th century. It is constructed of coursed squared stone and concrete with ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof with coped gables. The design is in the Gothic Revival style. The chapel comprises an apsidal sanctuary, a nave, a south aisle, a south-west porch, a corner tower, and an office.

The exterior features mainly traceried lancet windows. The canted sanctuary has a plain coped parapet. The east end has a triple lancet with a hoodmould and stops, set under a gabled string course with bosses. A buttress with a square crenellated cap stands to the left. The left angle has a canted hipped projection, and the right angle features an octagonal tower, two stages high, with a buttress and string course. The tower includes a chimney topped with a buttressed square turret with louvred openings. The nave, which has five bays, has buttresses rising through the parapet and square crenellated caps. There is a plinth, string course, and a coped parapet with three small pointed arched openings in each bay. The east gable has a small cross and a single ventilator. The west end exhibits angle buttresses and a plain coped parapet, along with a three-light pointed arch window with a hoodmould and stops, underneath a shallow gabled string course with bosses. The north side has four two-light pointed arch windows with hoodmoulds and stops. The triple-gabled south aisle features buttresses and coped gables, with three two-light pointed arch windows with hoodmoulds. A gabled south porch is roofed with lengthwise concrete slabs. The south gable has diagonal buttresses and a chamfered doorway with an ogee hoodmould and finial. The west side has two single lancets. The single-bay office, located to the north-west, has a crenellated parapet, a two-light pointed arch window to the west, a single lancet to the north, and a shouldered doorway to the east.

The interior has a rendered vault with moulded ribs and ashlar springings. The sanctuary has stained glass panels, flanked by single blind arches. A mid-20th century curved sounding board is positioned below the window. The nave’s bays are divided by octagonal wall shafts and moulded pointed arches. On the south side, to the east is a blank arch, followed by three bays with blank heads and, below, chamfered segment-headed openings with traceried glazed wooden screens. To the west is a bay with moulded pointed arched double doors. A blank bay with a pointed arched doorway is on the north side to the east. The west end of the nave features a stained glass window. The south aisle, functioning as an ante-room, has corbelled concrete slab roofs with moulded ribs, and bays divided by chamfered piers and pilasters. At either end is a segment-arched recess, with the western one containing double doors. The north side has traceried glazed screens with seats. Fittings include a traceried panelled wooden reading desk and open framed wooden benches.