Columbarium At Lawnswood Cemetery

LEEDS

SE23NE OTLEY ROAD, Lawnswood 714-1/6/937 (West side (off)) Columbarium at Lawnswood Cemetery

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Columbarium. Dated 1933, dedicated July 1934. By Col AE Kirk, completed by Messrs. Kirk and Tomlinson of Leeds. Red brick and Portland stone, pantile roof, marble details. A tall single-storey building in Classical style with war memorial and tiers of niches containing cinerary urns; the portico continued as L-shaped colonnaded wings enclosing a paved area with low walls, facing NE. The chapel is apsidal, barrel-vaulted, with 3 recesses along each side containing the shelves with urns, some closed by patterned bronze grilles; round-arched clerestory windows; the entrance has glazed bronze double doors, overlight with elaborate scrolled decoration, keyed architrave, round window above. The high round-arched portico has columns in antis and entablature with 2 urns, panelled reveals to the arch. The round arch repeated in the colonnades, the back walls with inscribed plaques; the ends return as round-arched doorways with stone architrave and bronze fanlight, hipped roof. The outside face of the wings and chapel also carries memorial plaques and inscribed stone panels. INTERIOR: not inspected. The building provided accommodation for 2,000 urns within the niches. (Handbook to Leeds Crematorium: 1936-).

Listing NGR: SE2674338948

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.