St Margaret'S Cemetery Chapels

Cemetery chapels, built in 1865 by Martin Bulmer, with an addition to the rear dating to the 1920s. The construction uses snecked ragstone rubble with flint dressings, featuring a Kent tile and interlocking cement tile roof. Designed in a High Victorian Gothic style, it incorporates Early English and Decorated details. The complex comprises two gabled chapels, two carriage arches, and a central spire. A two-story central tower rises to a spire, incorporating a gabled niche with single lancet windows facing east and west, broaches at the angles, an octagonal second stage, weathered stone courses, and an octagonal bell chamber. The bell chamber has quinquefoil headed arches with colonnettes and gabled heads. The spire is topped with a metal finial and vane. Two flanking carriage porches are given form by segmental arches and coped gables. The two almost identical gabled funerary chapels, one Anglican and one Nonconformist, feature set-off angle buttresses, kneelers, and coped gables. The east and west windows have three lights with elaborate 14th-century style Decorated flowing tracery. The carriage porches exhibit chamfered principals and boarded ceilings. The interiors of the chapels were not inspected.