West Cemetery Chapel

The West Cemetery Chapel is a cemetery chapel built in 1856, designed by Richard Davie Gould. It is constructed from snecked local slatestone and features a natural slate roof with crested ridge tiles, showcasing a decorated Gothic style. This chapel is one of a pair, aligned with the other chapel, and is indicated on the Ordnance Survey map as the Anglican chapel.

The chapel is small, with three bays and a gabled porch located centrally on the south side. It has clasping battered buttresses at both ends and a low buttress in the center beneath the east window sill. The gables are coped and have kneelers, and there is a coped plinth. Both the east and west ends are identical, featuring a three-light window with a hoodmould, carved corbel heads, and cusped roundels in the head tracery. A moulded string runs across the east and west ends, rising to form a sill below the window.

The south side includes a coped gabled porch with a chamfered two-centred arched doorway. There are two two-light traceried windows on the south side and three on the north side. The west end has a later doorway that has been added. The interior has not been inspected but may contain interesting features.

Historically, the cemetery was established by the Barnstaple Burial Board in 1856, and Richard Davie Gould served as the town surveyor.