East Cemetery Chapel

The East 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 and is located close to the entrance, aligned with its identical counterpart. It is marked on the OS map as the Nonconformist chapel of the pair.

The chapel is a small, three-bay structure with a gabled porch at the center of the south side. It has clasping battered buttresses at both ends and a low buttress in the center beneath the east window cill. The gables are coped with 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 cill 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 for a toilet conversion.

The interior has not been inspected but may contain features of interest. The cemetery itself was established by the Barnstaple Burial Board in 1856, with Richard Davie Gould serving as the town surveyor.