New Malton Cemetery Chapel And Chapel Of Rest

The New Malton Cemetery Chapel and Chapel of Rest, built around 1860, is a cemetery chapel constructed from rockfaced sandstone with ashlar quoins and dressings, set on a chamfered plinth. It features steeply pitched slate roofs with coped gables. The structure consists of a 1-bay gable wall for the chapel of rest on the west side and a 1-storey, 3-bay chapel on the east side, connected by a 2-bay cross-gabled porch and vestibule, arranged in a 1/2:1:1/2 format.

The porch has a 2-centred arch made up of three chamfered orders, with the inner arch resting on foliate shafted corbels and the outer being continuous. The gable apex features a blind quatrefoil moulding and a wrought-iron finial on a moulded trefoil base at each end of the cross-gable. In the center of the cross-gable, there is a gabled bellcote on a chamfered plinth, which has a trefoiled opening beneath a pointed hoodmould supported by foliate stops, along with blind trefoil moulding at the apex. The gable finial is made of wrought iron on a roll-moulded base, and there is a ballflower corbel table at the base of the gable coping.

On either side of the porch, there are single cinquefoiled lancet windows leading to the flanking vestibules. The Chapel of Rest is accessed from the east through the vestibule within the porch, featuring board double doors on wrought-iron hinges set in a 2-centred arched opening. The windows flanking the vestibule are also cinquefoiled lancets. The west side of the chapel has three similar lights, separated by dwarf buttresses with offsets. The diagonal buttressed north and south gable walls contain windows with three trefoiled lights beneath foiled circle tracery and pointed hoodmoulds on foliate stops, along with a chamfered sillband. Moulded fleur-de-lys gable finials adorn each end.

The chapel is entered from the west end through the vestibule within the porch, with details that largely mirror those of the Chapel of Rest, including trefoil-headed windows and an east window featuring cinquefoiled lights with a 6-pointed star in the head. Wheel gable crosses are also present. All openings are quoined and chamfered, and the windows throughout have diamond lattice glazing.