Memorial Cloister And Attached Wall At Joy Mead Recreation Ground

The memorial cloister at Joy Mead Recreation Ground was built in 1930 by Talbot Brown and Fisher from Wellingborough. It is constructed from dressed ironstone and coursed ironstone rubble, topped with Collyweston stone slate roofs. The structure is a single storey with a two-window range. The entrance features a central three-bay opening supported by two full columns and two half columns, along with two semi-circular steps leading to the central opening. The columns are octagonal with broach stop-chamfered capitals and square abaci that have recessed panels. On either side of the entrance are two matching open windows with two pairs of stone balusters. The cloister has a moulded eaves cornice.

Inside, the cloister walks consist of five bays along the long sides and four bays along the side walks, featuring open arcades supported by similar columns, with hall-columns at the corner piers. Each angle of the cloister has pairs of shallow niches with round arch heads, and facing the entrance on the far wall is a larger central recess with a moulded stone frame that contains the painted stone arms of the Agnew family, along with a bronze commemorative plate below. The walks have shallow plaster barrel vaults, and both the walks and the cloister garth are stone paved.

To the right of the entrance front, there is an attached stone wall with a 'keyhole' arch. This cloister was erected by the Agnew family in memory of World War I and their only son, Ewan Siegfried.