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The ICCM Journal | Autumn 2020 | V88 No. 3
Other chapels possess multiple arches. Those at Paddington Old Cemetery have two arches for the hearses and a series of linked rooms with a central bell tower under which is a room for cemetery staff. The same arrangement can be found at Cardiff’s Cathays Cemetery. In 1857, Loughborough was provided by two chapels linked by three arches, with the centre one completely avoiding the entrances to the chapels. At Bromley in south east London a further variation can be found with a central road for vehicles and two pedestrian arches either side. At Bristol’s Greenbank Cemetery the central bell tower of some considerable height is flanked by pedestrian entrance to the chapels. There are also secondary doors into the chapel on the outer extremities to permit an ‘in and out’ flow, a feature adopted elsewhere.
A funeral arriving at the chapels in Leicester’s Welford Road Cemetery. The chapels built in 1849 have since been demolished.
A grand linking cloister joined the chapels in Leicester’s Welford Road Cemetery, designed in 1849 for the Leicester General Cemetery Company. In other places the entrance arch doubles as a porte cochère to include the cemetery lodge. Nottingham Road Cemetery in Derby is a good example.
The chapels in Barnsley Cemetery linked by a screen.
Some chapels were joined not by a porte cochère but by a linking screen or cloisters, such as at Barnsley.
The chapels in Walthamstow Cemetery are at right angles to distinguish between denominations.
Hartshill Cemetery. The chapels have since lost their unique pointed towers.
At Hartshill Cemetery in Staffordshire, the German Romanesque chapels are also linked by a cloister, but no central carriage way for the funeral vehicles.3
Subtle differences distinguished the denomination of the chapel. For example, some chapels were placed at right angles to each other: Hyde Park at Doncaster, Walthamstow in north east London, Lawnswood at Leeds, Goole in the East Riding, Oundle in Northamptonshire and Cornwall’s St Austell Cemetery are examples. The second distinguishing feature was the windows. At Barnsley, the Nonconformists probably had their services in the chapel with the rose window, rather than in the chapel with the three windows, perhaps considered too Anglican by the Dissenters. Other differences were apparent. At Leicester’s Welford Road Cemetery the Anglican chapel was 10ft longer than the one for the Nonconformists.4 But the porte cochère did not always link two chapels. At the City of Westminster’s cemetery at Hanwell in West
