Pair of Cemetery Chapels at Otley Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1988. Chapel.
Pair of Cemetery Chapels at Otley Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- scattered-zinc-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds North West MP: Katie White (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1988
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Pair of Cemetery Chapels at Otley Cemetery, Cross Green
- OS grid reference
- SE 208 458
- Coordinates
- 53.90865, -1.6837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pair of cemetery chapels at Otley Cemetery were built around 1875 and are designed in the Gothic Revival style. They are constructed from rock-faced and ashlar sandstone and feature graduated Welsh slate roofs. The chapels are single-storey and gable-fronted, connected by an archway beneath a two-stage tower topped with a spire.
The central tower is notable for its quoined side buttresses and a moulded pointed arch that rises from corbelled shafts, complete with a hoodmould that has head-carved stops. The belfry stage is offset and includes two cusped and louvred windows, which are also linked by a hoodmould. The tower culminates in a broach spire adorned with lucarnes in two tiers.
Each chapel is connected by narrow recessed bays that feature single-light windows under hoodmoulds. They each have a chamfered plinth, quoins, offset angle buttresses, and large four-light windows with cusped and foiled heads under hoodmoulds. The gables are finished with shaped kneelers and copings. The side doorways beneath the tower have moulded arches with hoodmoulds, while the opposing side doorways are similar but set within gabled projections. Each side also has two-light windows and cusped and foiled gable openings at the rear.
Inside, the chapel on the right contains fitted pews and an arch-braced roof supported by corbels, while the left chapel is similar in design but is currently used as a storage space.
Local climate
Pair of Cemetery Chapels at Otley Cemetery receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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