Mortuary Chapel In Stoke New Cemetery

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.