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Detached south-facing gable-fronted Gothic Revival former mortuary chapel, one of pair of such chapels in cemetery, built 1886, now in use as outbuilding, with polygonal apse to north end and single-bay single-storey vestry projection to east. Pitched slate roof with decorative banding, rounded to north, with terracotta ridge crestings, limestone coping, timber eaves course, limestone and cast-iron crosses to front and rear and having decorative timber bargeboards and projecting roughly-dressed and cut limestone and sandstone chimneystack to vestry. Snecked sandstone walls with cut limestone and sandstone plinth, having cut limestone quoins and platbands to gable-front. Chamfered limestone block-and-start surrounds to openings. Pointed arch windows, two-light to apse, triple-lancet with alternating cut limestone and sandstone voussoirs to front elevation and square-headed two-light to vestry, all having coloured lattice and quarry glass cast-iron windows. Pointed arch entrance opening with timber battened double doors with ornate strap hinges and limestone steps, flanked by two pointed arch side-light windows, all under continuous limestone hood moulding and having alternating cut limestone and sandstone voussoirs.
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