The chapel was built as part of the cemetery's establishment in the late 1930s, designed by Gunnar Asplund, who also laid out the surrounding burial ground. Asplund's work is known for its close relationship with the natural landscape, seen here in the way the chapel's terraced form is set against the hillside. This same guiding idea shaped his later work at Skogskyrkogården in Stockholm, designed with Sigurd Lewerentz and now recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The building has a restrained, functionalist character with a rectangular, cubic form typical of 1930s Swedish chapel architecture. Its façade is faced with irregularly shaped limestone slabs, quarried near Sjösa northeast of Nyköping, while the main west entrance is marked by copper doors beneath a raised parapet. Inside, the ceremonial room has a pale limestone floor and walls finished in a soft yellow-white render above grey limestone skirting, with a high-set window band on the south side creating shifting light within an otherwise enclosed space.
A substantial angled extension was added in the early 1970s to designs by architect Rolf Bergh, housing a cold room and office space, giving the chapel its L-shaped plan; a further small extension followed in 2004.
The large altarpiece in the ceremonial hall was painted by the artist Nils Nilsson and donated by Oxelösund's ironworks when the chapel was built. It depicts the Resurrection of Christ, with local character added through details such as a fishing net and a sledgehammer placed in the hands of figures in the scene.
A freestanding bell tower stands near the chapel. It was originally erected in 1926 on the hill where Sankt Botvids kyrka now stands, and was moved down to the cemetery when that church was built. According to one source, the bell tower underwent a full renovation in 2011.