NHER 54915 (Building record) - Chapel at Gorleston Old Cemetery

Grade II listed building description.
The chapel was built in 1889 by J.W. Cockrill in the gothic revival style from knapped flint with terracotta quoins and detailing with a plain tile roof. The building has a rectangular plan with a porch on the south side and apse at the west end. Groups of three tall lancet windows adorn both the apsidal west end and the east end of the chapel, framed in terracotta they stand in stark contrast to the grey knapped flint walls. Two groups of two similar, although smaller windows, are positioned in the north wall. The chapel is entered through a wrought iron gate into the south porch. The gate is flanked by terracotta columns with rosette decorated capitals linked by dogtooth decoration around the architrave. Such decorative detail extends around the eaves of the building and the lancet windows at the eastern end of the chapel. There are angle buttresses on each corner of the building and gable parapets with kneelers at each end of the roof. Most of the plain roof tiles have been replaced recently but the roof structure beneath remains in its original form. Internally the walls are faced in brown and cream glazed tiles, a characteristic of many of Cockrills' buildings. The impact of the tiling is enhanced by the continued use of terracotta for quoins, columns and lintels and the alternation of courses of brown and cream tiles on the upper courses of the east and west walls. The coupled rafter roof is simple in execution with corbels displaying the coat of arms for Great Yarmouth and Gorleston. The dog tooth terracotta decoration which is used liberally on the external face is also used internally to frame the large windows at the east end of the chapel. All the pews, the lectern and organ survive. A coffin bier also sits within the chapel. The gate lodge was also built by Cockrill in 1879.
See (S1).
S. Howard (NLA), 4 October 2010.