Anglican Chapel At Torquay Cemetery

The Anglican chapel at Torquay Cemetery is a disused and semi-derelict building, dating from around 1852, likely established alongside the cemetery itself. It is constructed from snecked local grey limestone with Bathstone dressings and features a slate roof in a Decorated style. The chapel has a simple aisleless plan with three bays, oriented on a south-west to north-east axis.

The south-west end, which serves as the ritual west, includes a doorway and a porch located on the ritual south side within the western bay. There is a slender engaged bell tower on the north side of the western bay. The exterior is characterized by diagonal buttresses with set-offs and coped gables. The ritual west end features a three-centred moulded doorway with a hoodmould and an original plank door adorned with elaborate strap hinges. Above this doorway is a three-centred arched window, also with a hoodmould, which was boarded up at the time of the survey. A larger boarded-up window with a hoodmould is set within a round-headed masonry panel on the west end.

On the south side, a small gabled porch has a double-chamfered arched doorway and remnants of the original boarded door with strap hinges. The two eastern bays contain crank-headed blocked windows with hoodmoulds. The north side mirrors this design but features a three-stage tower in the western bay, complete with diagonal buttresses and a moulded arched doorway on its north face. The second stage of the tower has one-light trefoil-headed windows with hoodmoulds and splays, leading up to an octagonal belfry stage that includes tall trefoil-headed louvred openings and a pyramidal stone slate roof topped with a crocketed finial. The interior was not inspected. This chapel is part of a 17-acre site established by the Torquay Extra-Mural Cemetery Company and is included for its group value.