Trealaw Cemetery Chapel

The Trealaw Cemetery Chapel is a Gothic structure built in the 19th century. It is constructed from coursed, occasionally snecked, rock-faced sandstone with generous ashlar dressings, referred to as Forest stone. The roof is banded Welsh slate with decorative ridge tiles and large stone finials. The building comprises a five-bay nave, a southeast tower incorporating an entrance and a short passage adjoining the nave, a lower single-bay chancel, and a small northeast porch. The windows feature alternating red and buff sandstone voussoirs, and red buttress quoins contrast with buff ashlar bands, creating a modest polychromy.

Buttresses have ashlar offsets and quoins, creating a symmetrical pattern with the rock-faced sandstone. A prominent sillband/string course, stepped at the east end, encircles the building, continuing over the buttresses, and deep ashlar copings are present to each gable, along with a continuous battered plinth. The large five-light west window has geometric tracery and a hoodmould with figurative stops, above which is a small blind gable lancet. Kneelers, ashlar bands, angle buttresses, and a stepped sillband are also visible. The south and north elevations each contain pointed arched windows of two lights with quatrefoil tracery lights, three to the west and one to the east of the opposing porches. The north porch has a gabled roof with large stone tiles, heavy roll moulding over a pointed arched doorway, and a recessed planked wooden door with decorative metal hinges, accessed by a shallow stone ramp.

The south tower, which also serves as an entrance porch, is three stories high with a pyramidal roof, replacing a former spire, and is surmounted by a decorative weather vane. The eaves cornice features ballflower moulding and a Lombard frieze. Full-height angle buttresses with offsets are mostly of ashlar, with ashlar bands dividing the stories. The belfry has double louvred lancets with plate tracery, narrow lancets below, and lancets to the ground floor. Five stone steps lead to a heavily moulded pointed arched main entrance doorway, which is protected by a decorative wrought iron gate. The porch has rendered walls and a flag floor, and a pointed arch frames the internal doorway, which has a planked door with decorative hinges.

The chancel features a three-light east window with geometric tracery, a three-light south window with perpendicular style tracery, and angle buttresses. A lean-to boiler house is present to the north, with a separate matching door. The roof is boarded. The interior walls are rendered with exposed quoins, and the floor is quarry tiled. Unusual boxed family pews, aligned north/south and facing each other, are located in the east bay of the nave. A pointed chancel arch has foliage capitals, and the main furnishing is a reading desk centered beneath the chancel arch.