Shrewsbury General Cemetery Buildings

The Shrewsbury General Cemetery Buildings, constructed in 1856 by Pountey Smith, consist of cemetery chapels and a porte-cochere connected by a cloister, along with two flanking lodge houses or offices. The buildings are made of coursed and squared stone, with the porte-cochere featuring partial timbering and plain tiled roofs, all designed in the Decorated style.

The chapels are separated by a central tower topped with a spire. This three-stage tower includes paired bell-chamber lights, an embattled parapet adorned with corbel heads and pinnacles, and an octagonal spire with three tiers of lucarnes. The chapel range has seven bays, divided by pilaster buttresses with truncated pinnacles, and features a high plinth and two-light Decorated windows above. There is a four-bay porch that forms an open-ended aisle, also with similar windows, and large Decorated windows of four and five lights in the end walls.

The porte-cochere spans the front and is connected to the chapel range by a narrow cloister that has paired lancet windows between the buttresses. It is a single-storey structure divided into three bays by projecting buttresses, each side featuring long mullioned traceried lights. The timber gable walls have cambered trusses filled with decorative traceried lights above the full-height openings on either side.

Each lodge flanking the porte-cochere is constructed from coursed and squared stone with plain tiled roofs, facing the street with gables. The right-hand lodge features a two-storey canted bay window with a raking stone roof, a mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor, and a mullioned window above, all with decorative leaded glazing. It also has a chimney on the right-hand return and a lean-to porch. The left-hand lodge has a single-storey canted bay window with mullioned and transomed lights and a raking stone roof in the gable, a small mullioned window above with a hoodmould, and a recessed wing to the left that includes a doorway in a four-centred archway, with the hoodmould continuing across the facade and stepping up over mullioned and transomed windows on either side. An axial stack is present as well.