Chapel of Rest

The Chapel of Rest is a cemetery chapel built in 1889, designed by Temple Moore. It is constructed from grey and yellow sandstone rubble, featuring grey sandstone ashlar dressings, with the ends of the blocks left unfinished and irregular. The chapel has a slate roof with diminishing courses over the main body, while the tower is topped with a red, plain tiled roof.

The chapel has a single body with a tower that rises from the north-east corner. The entrance is located in the east gable and is offset to the south to accommodate the tower. The principal elevation, facing the cemetery entrance, features a boarded door with custom ironmongery set within a two-centred arched doorway. This doorway has moulded voussoirs that transition to plain, straight-chamfered jambs. Above the voussoirs, there is a prominent drip mould that rises to support a stone Latin cross. The cross has carved roundels at the ends of its three upper arms, with two small windows flanking its lower part. The gable end is raised and coped, while the north-east side features a short tower with a pyramidal roof and a diagonally-set metal cross finial. The tower includes a single belfry opening on each side, designed as louvered, square-headed slits, and is lit at the base by two similar glazed openings. A stepped buttress with a chamfered plinth projects from the south wall, flush with the east gable, visually balancing the tower.

The main body of the chapel is illuminated by small, high-set lancet windows: one on the south wall, two trefoil-headed windows on the north wall, and a single cinquefoil lancet on the west gable, which is finished with a stone cross finial.

Inside, the chapel features a parquet floor and a blue-painted timber boarded ceiling. The walls are plastered, with the lower section up to dado level painted to imitate blue-veined marble and framed in timber.