The John Abel Smith Memorial Chapel

1. 972 CHURCH ROAD (The Cemetery) The Jolm Abel Smith Memorial Chapel So 8705 14/627 II

2. Circa 1872; to the design of Sir George Gllbert Scott. Richly detailed small mortuary chapel in Early Englieh style. Walls faced with ashlar; partly plain tile roof, with ashlar coping and cruciform finals to gable ends. Two bay side elvations with gabled corner and centre buttresses, each bay ubdivided by a three bay double arcade of coupled columns above a panelled base; oolumns, with oapitals with stiff-leaf folige set below pinted arches with trefoiled heads anti with labels with foliaged corbels; wrought-iron grilled set within the arcade openings; trefoiled corbel-table beneath stringcourse and parapet with coping. Richly moulded and carved entrance with trefoiled arch set within moulded pointed arch, above column shafts with foliage; wrought iron gates set within the entrance; hexafoiled panel over.

The John Abel Papers, with documents relating to Mortuary Chapel, are deposited with the Sussex County Records 0ffice.

Listing NGR: SU8746705279