Butterfield Family Chapel And Vault Opposite Main Gateway Of Utley Cemetery

The Butterfield Family Chapel and Vault, located opposite the main gateway of Utley Cemetery in Keighley, was built around 1875 for the Butterfield family of Cliffe Castle. This family chapel and vault is constructed from ashlar sandstone and features a miniature single-cell chapel that is raised on a vault built into the bank, with access from the rear.

Designed in the Gothic Revival style, the chapel has a chamfered plinth and corner buttresses adorned with granite colonnettes and goblets. The entrance consists of copper-plated wooden double doors with openwork lights, set in a square opening beneath a carved heraldic device that includes the motto and inscription 'BUTTERFIELD FAMILY OF CLIFF CASTLE'. The chapel is topped with crocketted niches and ashlar gable copings featuring an apex cross.

At the center of the ridge, a square column rises, supporting figurines beneath canopies on each side, with a pyramidal apex raised on a colonnette. The rear of the chapel showcases traceried ashlar vault doors under a moulded arch, with a plain plate tracery three-light window above. The returns feature a traceried parapet on a corbel table, which is interrupted by a cusped triangular light set beneath a pointed arch and a half hipped dormer. The ashlar roof is decorated with scale patterning.

Inside, the chapel contains a wooden wall plaque listing the names of those interred, along with a damaged stained glass window. The monument is enclosed within an iron-railed enclosure.