The Watts Memorial Cloister is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1967. Cloister.
The Watts Memorial Cloister
- WRENN ID
- watchful-sentry-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1967
- Type
- Cloister
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SU 94 NE COMPTON C.P. DOWN LANE
3/62 The Watts Memorial Cloister 14.6.67
GV II
Cloister. Designed and built in 1911 by Mary Seton Watts. Red brick with stone plinth, hipped Roman pantiled roof. Rectangular, single storey with left hand range canted forward at an angle. Twenty bays with a series of interlacing round headed arches on square, four sectioned piers with flat Abaci and square piers, or four columns with blocked in capitals. Wider entrance bay to left of centre, six bays from left end. Lead screen gates with cross and scroll, Celtic style, decoration, approximately 2½ feet high. Opposite the gates on the rear wall of the cloister is a wall monument of terracotta to G F Watts. Three bays, centre one projecting between half columns with Art Nouveau capitals. Braced base. Flanking bays contain classical figures, recumbent effigy of Watts to centre. Further tablet to Mary Watts. The graves are outside and immediately opposite the cloister entrance.
Listing NGR: SU9567247392
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