Moorhouse Chapel

This is a Church of England chapel, built in 1860 by Henry Clutton for J. E. Denison. It is constructed in a 19th-century French Gothic Revival style, using coursed squared rubble and brick with ashlar dressings. The roof is steeply pitched with plain tiles, and features a single side wall stone stack. Distinctive details include sill bands, coved and billeted eaves, coped gables with crosses, and windows with single and double lancet arches, notched reveals, partial capitals, and chamfered heads.

The chapel comprises a nave and chancel under a continuous roof, a bell turret, a vestry, and a south porch. The nave, four bays wide, has buttresses on each side of the east end, with the north buttress engaged with the vestry. The south side features a central single lancet flanked by double lancets, while the north side has a double and two single lancets. The west end houses two lancets, above which is a chamfered round window. The single-bay chancel has buttresses and round traceried windows on each side, and an east end featuring three single lancets and an unglazed traceried round window above. The bell turret has gabled buttresses, and features round headed recesses to the east and west containing crocketed round headed openings with paired ringed central shafts, crocketed capitals, and larger flanking shafts. A coped gable with kneelers and an iron cross tops the turret. The vestry has a corbelled stack to the west and two square headed windows internally divided by a notched mullion with partial capitals.

Inside, the stone dressings are painted. The nave has chamfered pointed openings, a moulded sill band with foliate stops, and chamfered eaves. The roof is a principal rafter structure with double purlins, notched braces, collars, and minor king posts. The moulded chancel arch has a coved hood mould with billeted stops, billeted corbels, double ringed shaft imposts with waterleaf capitals, beasts, and a nail head band. The chancel boasts an elaborate Decorated style reredos of painted ashlar, with four cusped ogee openings, crocketed gables, pinnacles, and finials, displaying painted texts. A small piscina is located on the south side, and the chancel roof is vaulted with roll moulded ribs and a central round opening. The vestry also has a principal rafter roof with collars.

Notable fittings include a tapered round font with four square shafts on a clustered column with foliate capitals, and a quatrefoil base. A round ashlar pulpit features a ringed round base with four square engaged shafts, moulded top and bottom edges, and a bracketed bookstand with a granite shaft. A cast iron lectern has four twisted shafts with traceried bracketed feet and a bookstand. Other furnishings consist of shaped, chamfered softwood benches, a carved panelled and painted bench, an armchair with a carved panelled back dated 1662, a 17th-century side table with turned legs and a carved top rail, a moulded altar rail with notched bracketed shafts.