Non Conformist Cemetery Chapel At Petersfield Cemetery

The Non-Conformist Cemetery Chapel at Petersfield Cemetery is a cemetery chapel built around 1857 in the Early English style. It features an octagonal plan and is constructed from knapped and squared flints, with stone and yellow brick dressings, topped by a tiled roof that includes a few courses of curved tiles near the top and a terracotta finial. The windows alternate between trefoils and double trefoil lights, each with leaded lights and trefoils above. Buttresses separate the bays, and there is a plinth. The chapel has two gabled projections; the rear includes a window, while the front has a porch. The porch features collar beams, wooden brackets, and a double door with elaborate cast iron hinges, which are smaller than those on the adjoining chapel. Inside, the roof structure consists of purlins and arched braces that converge in an octagon at the apex. Petersfield Cemetery was opened in 1857 when the local churchyard became full. This chapel has undergone some alterations and is one of a pair of nearly identical cemetery chapels at Petersfield Cemetery.