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
- Constituency
- Woking MP: Mr Will Forster (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1984
- Type
- Crematorium
- Address
- Crematory and Columbarium of Woking Crematorium, Hermitage Road, GU21 8TJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 974 578
- Coordinates
- 51.31171, -0.60272
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The crematory and columbarium of Woking Crematorium was built in 1879. It features red brick construction with stone dressings and plain tiled roofs. The building has a rectangular plan and is located to the south of the Chapel. It is two stories tall and four bays long, with alternating lancet windows and buttresses. There are double board doors to the right of the center, while the former entrance on the left side has been converted into a shrine of remembrance.
Inside, the columbarium contains ashes and urns set within partition walls and has a barrel-vaulted ceiling. Both the columbarium and the crematory are notable as the first of their kind in the country, with the first legal cremation in Great Britain occurring on 26 March 1885 at Woking.
Local climate
Crematory and Columbarium of Woking Crematorium 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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