Mounton Chapel

Nave of 5 by 8 m and chancel of 5 by 3m. Later porch at the W end. Small extension to the nave at the N side near to the W corner, probably for gallery stairs. Neither the porch nor the extension are bonded to the original masonry. There is a bellcote for a single bell over the W gable of the nave. Masonry of uncoursed local rubble stone, said to be pointed in lime and coaldust. Larger quoins. The roof is of slate with tile ridges. One late C13/C14 narrow trefoil-headed light in the S side of the chancel. In the N wall opposite is an undatable rectangular window. At high level, in the W wall of the nave are two narrow lights. The other windows of the church are as restored in the C19: pointed E window of two trefoil-headed lights; two flat-headed windows in the nave with one or two mullions, with, beneath the sills, the blocking of the preceding narrower windows. Another flat-headed two-mullion window (one mullion missing) in the N wall of the nave. An exterior S door to the chancel has been walled up in yellow sandstone rubble masonry. A blocked doorway in the N of the nave has a four-centred arch. Two-light W window at high level. The porch has an equilateral outer arch, chamfered, formed with two large stones and a small keystone.

The interior was well restored, including the reconstruction of the roof. Three bay roof to the nave with king-post trusses; single purlin each side. The N wallplate carries over the N extension. In the chancel there are no trusses, the rafters being carried on strutted purlins. There is sarking boarding overall to which the slates are fixed. Remains of suspended boarded floor. There are corbels of a lost W gallery. The chancel arch is equilateral pointed, but oddly wider than the wall beneath. It is plain and unchamfered. In the chancel there is an arch-headed recess each side of the E window, discovered in the C20 restoration. Trefoil-headed C14 piscina discovered and re-opened at the same time. The nave plastering is said to be over slate hanging over earlier plaster. One of two large memorial stones beneath the altar is said to have survived, inscribed in memory of -- Poyer, wife of William? Oliver, died 1792