Woking Crematorium Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Woking local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1984. Chapel.
Woking Crematorium Chapel
- WRENN ID
- gilded-hammer-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Woking
- Constituency
- Woking MP: Mr Will Forster (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1984
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Woking Crematorium Chapel, Hermitage Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 974 578
- Coordinates
- 51.31187, -0.60263
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woking Crematorium Chapel, built in 1888, is a notable structure located on Hermitage Road in Woking. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a plain tiled roof, stone coped gables, and a cross at the west end. The chapel has a rectangular nave with four bays and a pent roofed porch on the north side, which includes a 20th-century glazed extension. The west end has two light arched windows with quatrefoil roundels. There is a 20th-century north door set in a chamfered and moulded surround, along with another door at the west end.
Inside, the nave has a marble floor and a gallery at the west end. Two stained glass windows in the north wall, created by R.H. Courbald in 1928, depict the first two presidents of the Association of Cremataria. The catafalque, made of marble, dates from 1903. This chapel is significant as it is the first crematorium chapel in the country, as noted in A. Crosby's "History of Woking" published in 1982.
Local climate
Woking Crematorium Chapel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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