The Watts Memorial Cloister

The Watts Memorial Cloister is a cloister designed and built in 1911 by Mary Seton Watts. It is constructed from red brick with a stone plinth and features a hipped Roman pantiled roof. The cloister is rectangular and single storey, with the left-hand range angled forward. It consists of twenty bays that showcase a series of interlacing round-headed arches supported by square, four-sectioned piers with flat Abaci, or by four columns with blocked-in capitals. There is a wider entrance bay located to the left of center, six bays from the left end, which includes lead screen gates adorned with cross and scroll decorations in a Celtic style, standing approximately 2½ feet high. On the rear wall of the cloister, opposite the gates, is a wall monument made of terracotta dedicated to G. F. Watts. This monument features three bays, with the center bay projecting between half columns that have Art Nouveau capitals and a braced base. The flanking bays contain classical figures, and there is a recumbent effigy of Watts in the center, along with a further tablet honoring Mary Watts. The graves are located outside and directly opposite the cloister entrance.