Mortuary Chapel in Stoke New Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. Chapel.

Mortuary Chapel in Stoke New Cemetery

WRENN ID
winter-pedestal-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Guildford
Constituency
Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1988
Type
Chapel
Address
Mortuary Chapel in Stoke New Cemetery, Stoughton Road
OS grid reference
SU 990 513
Coordinates
51.25229, -0.58273
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Mortuary Chapel in Stoke New Cemetery, built around 1880, is a single-storey rectangular chapel constructed from coursed sandstone blocks with ashlar and brick dressings, topped with plain-tiled roofs. The chapel features a gabled porch on the south side, which is situated beneath a small square tower and an octagonal turret with a spire. The eaves of the chapel are corbelled in brick, and there is a stone corbel table at the lower eaves.

The wooden turret above the chapel has foiled arches on each face and is cross-braced below. The ends of the chapel are marked by ashlar angle quoins, and there are offset buttresses—two on both the north and south sides and one on the west. On the south side, there is a small stone-dressed window with two foiled lights and a roundel, accompanied by a larger similar window to the right, which is set under a relieving arch. Above this window is a stone half-dormer gable featuring a triangular panel at the apex, flanked by a buttress next to the stone-dressed window on the eastern end of the south side.

The north side has two windows. The gabled porch at the southwest corner includes a stone quatrefoil panel at its apex. The entrance features a hood moulding over a cusped and chamfered arched door surround, leading to recessed double doors that are accessed by two steps.

Local climate

Mortuary Chapel in Stoke New Cemetery 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 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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