Butterfield Family Chapel and Vault Opposite Main Gateway of Utley Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1988. A Victorian Chapel.

Butterfield Family Chapel and Vault Opposite Main Gateway of Utley Cemetery

WRENN ID
still-rampart-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1988
Type
Chapel
Address
Butterfield Family Chapel and Vault Opposite Main Gateway of Utley Cemetery, Skipton Road, Keighley
OS grid reference
SE 056 428
Coordinates
53.88143, -1.91501
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

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.

Local climate

Butterfield Family Chapel and Vault Opposite Main Gateway of Utley Cemetery sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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