Greenbank Cemetery Pair Of Attached Mortuary Chapels

A pair of attached mortuary chapels were built in 1871 by Henry Masters, located within Greenbank Cemetery. The buildings are constructed of squared Pennant rubble with polychromatic limestone and sandstone dressings and granite details, and have a slate roof with a striped pattern and decorative iron ridge. They are designed in the High Victorian Gothic Revival style, with an axial plan featuring two chapels linked by an open cloister and a central tower.

The arches of the exterior feature alternating red and white voussoirs; blocked lancet arches flank the tower, with a central red column and crocketed capital. The SW side's tympanum features a carved tableau of Christ and the disciples, while the NE side bears the inscription “GREENBANK/CEMETERY/OPENED 1871/ENLARGED 1881”. Crocketed flush gables with angel corbels are positioned at the eaves. The tower base has a scalloped, weathered ashlar eaves course, progressing to an octagonal section with oculi at the top and a weathered coping course; a timber spire was removed in 1952. Open lancet arcades with grey shafts and crocket capitals lead to small, cross-gabled vestries, featuring 2-light windows with Decorated tracery and ridge stacks. The ends of the buildings form two chapels – Church of England to the S and Nonconformist to the N – each with apsidal bays and an open porch. The bays feature 5 pointed gables containing traceried lancet arches, with figures set between them; nave ridges have square, leaded lanterns with a steep roof and iron finial. The porches include encaustic tiles, bench seating, and a 2-leaf lancet door with strap hinges. The entrances have paired red sandstone shafts beneath pointed arches, with gablet kneelers to the coping above.

The interior features open timber roofs supported by shafts with foliate corbels, three arched doorways on engaged shafts accessing the vestries, a grand relieving arch with inscribed texts, and an encaustic-tiled floor.