Chapel Immediately North Of Pythouse

The chapel immediately north of Pythouse is a private chapel built around 1827 by John Benett of Pythouse for his wife, Lucy Lambert of Boyton. It features ashlar stonework, with the rear wall made of ashlar-faced brick and a slate-clad brick vaulted roof with gabled ends. The chapel has a single rectangular cell oriented north-south, with an entrance at the center of the long west front and external steps on the east side leading down to a burial vault below.

In the Gothick style, the chapel's exterior is characterized by large buttresses on all sides and angle buttresses at the corners, each topped with pinnacles (though the crocketed pinnacles are missing). The west front has a 1:3:1 bay arrangement, with the center bay gabled and featuring a pointed arch niche above the doorway, flanked by large pointed arch windows and narrower blind end bays. A moulded string runs above the windows. The rear (east) elevation is similar but blind, with steps at the center leading down to the vault. The gable ends have large pointed arch windows, with the south end window set at ground level. All moulded window dressings and frames have been removed.

Inside, the walls are plastered, and the ceiling features a 5-bay plastered brick lierne-vault with moulded ribs and bosses at the intersections, springing from shafts on the walls that have small capitals. The east wall's shafts are missing, and two small fireplaces have lost their chimneypieces. The burial vault below contains two segmental arcades supporting narrow transverse vaults in ashlar, with four tiers of coffin-chambers on either side. It is noted that the Bishop of Salisbury refused to consecrate the chapel. At the time of inspection in December 1989, the chapel was derelict and overgrown.