Old Charlton Cemetery Chapels

Old Charlton Cemetery Chapels are a pair of chapels built around 1870 by T. Talbot Bury of Dover. They are constructed from rock-faced dressed stone rubble with Bath stone dressings and feature a steeply pitched plain tile roof on the southeast chapel, which has crested ridge tiles. The gable ends are capped with stone and adorned with wrought iron finials and corbelled eaves.

These single-cell chapels consist of an Anglican chapel to the northwest and a non-conformist chapel to the southeast, connected by porches to a central porte-cochere. The architectural style is High Victorian Gothic, incorporating elements of Early English and Venetian design.

The southwest front displays gable ends of the chapels on either side, featuring angle buttresses and tall three-light plate tracery windows with nailhead detailing in the arches. The central gable of the porte-cochere has diagonal buttresses and a similar arch, enhanced with cusps and colonnettes on the responds. The fleche above the porte-cochere has been truncated. The linking porches have open wooden arcaded sides with narrow cusped arches, two-light plate-tracery side windows, and doorways with plate tracery in the tympana, as well as colonnettes and strap hinges on the panelled doors.

The liturgical east end of the chapels includes a polygonal apse for the non-conformist chapel on the left and a semi-circular apse for the Anglican chapel on the right, both featuring lancet windows. Each roof has a small gabled ventilator on the inner slope, designed with a cusped arch and louvres.

The interior is noted for its polychromatic brickwork.