Epsom Cemetery Chapel (Church of England) is a Grade II listed building in the Epsom and Ewell local planning authority area, England. Cemetery chapel.
Epsom Cemetery Chapel (Church of England)
- WRENN ID
- gilded-belfry-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epsom and Ewell
- Constituency
- Epsom and Ewell MP: Helen Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cemetery chapel
- Address
- Epsom Cemetery Chapel (Church of England), Ashley Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 214 593
- Coordinates
- 51.31998, -0.25837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Epsom Cemetery Chapel, a Church of England building, was constructed in 1870 and designed by William Young. It is made of Kentish Ragstone with Bath stone dressings and features a grey-green slate roof, all in the Early English style. The chapel has a three-bay nave with a south porch and a north-east round tower, along with a one-bay chancel. Notable architectural features include a chamfered plinth, buttresses, red crested ridge tiles, and Celtic cross finials.
The nave's west window consists of two lights beneath a cinquefoil. The open south porch is supported by turned wooden columns on a dwarf stone wall, and inside, there is a pointed-arched double board door with decorative iron hinges, along with cast-iron boot scrapers and an umbrella stand. To the right of the porch is a two-light window with a trefoil in the head, followed by a lancet window. The northern side has similar fenestration, with the tower featuring offsets beneath the lower stage, which has a trefoil window, and below the belfry stage, which has slatted cusped openings. Above this is a foliage-corbelled steeple topped with an iron finial. The chancel, which is lower and set back, has a trefoil on the south side and a three-light east window with a quatrefoil and hoodmould.
The interior retains its original fittings. The cemetery was purchased in 1870 by the Local Burial Board, who commissioned R N Shaw and William Young to carry out the work. Young's designs are featured in his book, Picturesque Architectural Studies, published in 1872.
Local climate
Epsom Cemetery Chapel (Church of England) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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