Crematorium and Chapel, St Marylebone Cemetery

The Crematorium and Chapel at St Marylebone Cemetery, built in 1937 by Edwin Cooper for the Borough of St Marylebone, is a notable example of Italianate architecture. Constructed from English band red brick, it features tile and limestone dressings, with stone coursing beneath the eaves and a hipped pantile roof.

The chapel is designed in a plan that includes offices to the north of cloisters, surrounding a quadrangle. It has stepped stone architraves framing semi-circular arched windows, with three-bay windows on the east and west sides, and a round window on the north. Lean-to roofs cover the low offices and the north entrance loggia, which has square-headed classical stone architraves for the doorways and tile surrounds for the square-headed windows. The loggia is supported by tile and brick piers and features a semi-circular arched entry. A stone semi-circular arch with a tile tympanum sits above panelled double doors, which are set in square-headed classical stone architraves and flanked by urns in stone bowls.

A chimney is located within a four-stage southeast tower, which is adorned with neo-classical urns on the stone parapet and topped with an octagonal upper stage that has iron grilles in the openings and stone coursing at the top. The cloisters surrounding the Garden of Rest at the rear feature stone bowls set into the walls and stone steps leading to a square-headed west doorway, flanked by three-bay open screens with Doric columns. The inner quadrangle has Doric columns supporting the cloister walks, which include hipped porches with semi-circular arched doorways at the center of each elevation.

Inside, the chapel is finished in red brick and features pedimented and square-headed classical doorways. The ceiling has three domes, and the walls display shields bearing the arms of St Marylebone. A marble catafalque with ornamental bronze doors is present, along with an inverted torch above the doorway to the Garden of Rest. This building is one of Edwin Cooper's last commissions, and his ashes are interred here.