Box Cemetery Chapel

The building is a cemetery chapel, constructed in 1857 by Poulton and Woodman of Reading. It is built of crazed rubble, banded with ashlar, and has a stone tiled roof with a sawtooth ridge, coped gables, and cross finials. The plan is rectangular, with a projecting north porch, a south vestry, and a north-west needle spire. The architecture is unusually elaborate Gothic, notable for its highly carved window tracery and a virtuoso display of contrasting stonework.

The chapel has a raised plinth, a moulded string course, and ashlar corbelled eaves. It has two two-light ashlar windows on each side, featuring carved angel supporters between pointed heads, all set within an overall pointed arch of flush, alternating rock-faced and ashlar voussoirs. Below the string course is an ashlar panel featuring two ornate quatrefoils. The north porch has a pointed arch with hood moulding, two pierced trefoil openings on each side, a pointed-arched inner doorway, and a scissor-truss roof. The south vestry has a two-light south window, similar to those on the main chapel, and two pierced quatrefoil openings on its west side.

The east end features a highly ornate four-light traceried window with hood moulding, head stops, and a cusped trefoil with hood in the gable apex. The string course steps under the window, with three inset ashlar panels positioned below. The west end showcases an even more ornate five-light window, also with a hood, an apex trefoil, and three sunk panels below. A buttress is located to the right of the west window; to the left is a flying buttress reaching up to the base of an octagonal spirelet. This spirelet has stepped buttressing on its four cardinal faces, leading up to an octagonal bell stage. The diagonal faces of the spire have various ornamental details below long bell lancets with cusped heads. These heads are repeated over the buttress tops on the cardinal faces, with a zig-zag hood running around the base of the ashlar spire, which is pierced with small quatrefoils halfway up, and capped with an iron finial.