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Free-standing gable-fronted mortuary chapel, built c.1860, comprising single-bay nave with chancel, shallow transepts, porch to gable-front. Pitched slate roofs with fish-scale slate banding and terracotta ridge tiles, decorative tooled limestone bellcote to gable-front, with carved cross finials to gable-front and to chancel. Limestone block copings to gables with trefoil finials. Tooled limestone chimneystack to south elevation having octagonal flue with conical capping block. Cast-iron rainwater goods to tooled limestone eaves course. Rock-faced limestone walls with stepped plinth, chamfered string course to nave and tooled stone capped buttresses to long elevations. Pointed arch window openings to long elevations with tooled limestone surrounds, sills and tracery having carved stone hood-mouldings and rock-faced voussoirs. Nave windows comprise pair of trefoil-headed lancets with trefoil rose over, all having lead-lined stained glass. Single-pane lancet windows to chancel having lead-lined stained glass. Three-pane window to east elevation of chancel comprising pair of trefoil-headed lancets with quatrefoil rose over, all having lead-lined stained glass. Multifoil rose window to west nave elevation, limestone surround, tracery, hood-moulding and voussoirs with lead-lined stained glass. Square-headed tripartite window openings to porch, having tooled limestone surrounds, sills and mullions containing lead-lined stained-glass windows. Pointed arch opening to porch with carved limestone surround having engaged columns, hood moulding and with rock-faced voussoirs above. Battened timber double-leaf door with decorative wrought-iron strap hinges. Located within cemetery to south-west of gate lodge and west of twin chapel. Timber cross-beam roof to interior having stone supporting corbels. Carved floral decoration to eaves level beams. Painted rendered chancel arch with hood-moulding and timber panelled barrel vaulted ceiling to chancel. Original timber pews present as is timber oratory and altar.
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