Shalford Cemetery Chapel

Shalford Cemetery Chapel is a cemetery chapel built in 1886 by E L Lunn of Peak & Lunn, with repair work carried out around 1998. It is constructed of Bargate rubblestone laid to course, featuring Portland stone dressings and a renewed plain tile roof adorned with decorative ridge tiles. The chapel has semi-hexagonal ends on the west and east sides, a gabled porch on the south, and a vestry on the north. Designed in the Decorated Gothic style, it includes a chamfered plinth, offset buttresses, moulded eaves, gables with ashlar coping, moulded kneelers, and finials. The pointed-arched openings feature board doors with decorative iron hinges, 2-light windows with cusped lights and sexfoils above, as well as panels of sunken quatrefoils below and gablets with trefoils above. The porch has a cusped entrance, attached colonettes with foliage-decorated capitals, ballflowers on the arch, and a blind quatrefoil above.

Inside, the walls are made of red brick with blue-brick bands, and the floor is laid with coloured tiles. The windows contain coloured glass, and there are pews with moulded seat-dividers and brackets along the side walls and at the west end. The chapel features a decorative wooden pulpit and a panelled catafalque. The roof is also decorative, with moulded stone corbels and wooden brackets, cusping on the principal rafters, king-post trusses with pendant ball finials, and a framework for a former roof feature. This chapel is a well-preserved example of a non-conformist cemetery chapel, complete with original internal fittings.