Crematory And Columbarium Of Woking Crematorium is a Grade II listed building in the Woking local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1984. Crematorium. 2 related planning applications.
Crematory And Columbarium Of Woking Crematorium
- WRENN ID
- fading-flint-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Woking
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1984
- Type
- Crematorium
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/07/2011
SU 95NE 5/55
BOROUGH OF WOKING HERMITAGE ROAD Crematory and Columbarium of Woking Crematorium
GV II
Columbarium and crematory 1879. Red brick, stone dressings; plain tiled roofs. Rectangular plan, extending from the south side of the Chapel. 2 storeys, 4 bays long with alternating lancet windows and buttresses. Double board doors to right of centre, former entrance in left hand return front is now a shrine of remembrance.
Interior: Columbarium containing ashes and urns in partition walls, barrel vaulted. Both the Columbarium and the Crematory are the first of their type in the country, the first legal cremation in Great Britain being 26 March 1885 at Woking. (A Crosby : History of Woking (1982) pp. 107-8)
Listing NGR: SU9748457892
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