Anglican Cemetery Chapel, St Mary'S Churchyard

This is an Anglican cemetery chapel, built between 1855 and 1856 and designed by Thomas Fuller. It is part of Bathwick Cemetery, also known as St Mary's Churchyard, which was laid out in two phases, in 1856 and 1861.

The building is constructed from limestone ashlar with limestone dressings, covered by a Welsh slate roof. The plan is a simple, rectangular cell oriented east-west. The exterior is in the Early English style, a high single storey with stepped buttresses. The west end features a central pointed arched entrance with two orders of columns featuring stiff leaf capitals and a chevron moulding. The double plank doors have decorative wrought iron hinges. Above the doorway is a small circular window with a moulded surround, and a gabled bellcote sits at the apex. The side elevations have three bays, each with a single lancet window; the east end has a triple lancet window. The gables are finished with moulded and carved kneelers.

The interior is plain, with the ashlar walls left unplastered. Faint traces of painted text remain to either side of the east window. The building retains an interesting scissor-braced roof, with trusses supported by moulded corbels.

Bathwick Cemetery, which includes this chapel and a Nonconformist chapel designed by A S Goodridge, is an isolated and intimate site, set amid farmland and offering views across the city. The eastern boundary is defined by a coped wall with two gateways flanked by tall, stepped piers. The Anglican cemetery chapel was constructed during the cemetery's first phase of development (1855-6), with its foundation stone laid on 9 May 1855. It was made redundant in 1992.

The building is designated at Grade II for being a well-preserved and picturesque example of a mid-19th century cemetery chapel, for its elegant proportions and design by a recognised architect, for retaining its interesting scissor-braced roof structure, and for its significant relationship to the cemetery's landscape design.