Mortuary Chapels

The Mortuary Chapels, built in 1869 by John Henry Brown of Norwich, are located on Cemetery Road. These two chapels are constructed from cut flint with ashlar and brick dressings, featuring machine-tiled roofs, and are designed in an Early English style. They are linked by a covered walkway and are identical in design, both being single-storey structures.

The exterior features a central gabled entrance to the walkway, supported by stepped diagonal buttresses. The entrance is accessed through a trefoiled arch, which is framed by marble columns resting on stiff-leaf corbels with stiff-leaf capitals. The arch is adorned with balls in the hood and has voussoirs made of ashlar banded with red and blue brick. A decorative openwork cupola sits on the ridge of the roof. On either side of the entrance, there is a screen of five timber trefoiled lights on a plinth wall. Inside the entrance, trefoiled arches lead to each chapel, which are nearly identical to the entrance arch but lack the columns, standing instead on stiff-leaf corbels. The rear of the entrance features an identical arch. Each chapel is rectangular with stepped angle buttresses at the corners.

The south chapel has a three-light plate-tracery east window set beneath a banded ashlar and brick arch, with a stepped brick string course above. A doorway is located on the south flank to the right, featuring a punched tympanum and a banded arch, with a two-light plate-tracery window to the left, also under a banded arch, and a stepped buttress in between. The eaves cornice is made of red and blue brick. The west return of the south chapel has a bowed apsidal prominence with three trefoiled lancets, each with a banded arch beneath a conical roof. The north flank mirrors the south side, featuring one two-light window and a stepped buttress. The north chapel is a mirror image of the south chapel.

Inside the north chapel, collars are present on arched braces that rise from stone corbels, with Y braces supporting the principal rafters and one tier of butt purlins. The arched apsidal arch is decorated with nailhead motifs, and two rows of benches are placed against the north and south walls. The interior of the south chapel is identical to that of the north chapel.