Memorial Garden, Kaimhill Funeral Home, Kaimhill Road is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2005. Funeral home, crematorium.

Memorial Garden, Kaimhill Funeral Home, Kaimhill Road

WRENN ID
silent-mullion-owl
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 November 2005
Type
Funeral home, crematorium
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

1937-7, R Leslie Rollo. Art Deco style crematorium and halls of remembrance sited within Memorial Garden on ground falling to NW. Single and 2-storey with tall single stage chapel rising from centre and part raised basement, 3-bay, rectangular-plan. Bull-faced, squared and coursed, pink and grey granite; polished granite ashlar to porch and parapet coping. Band course. Some polished, recessed window jambs. Coped wallhead parapets to stepped roofline with flat roofs. Stone mullions.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Single storey bays with steps leading up to canted porch

at centre incorporating broad 2-leaf boarded timber door and flanking small lights to recessed face, outer bays each with bipartite window, access ramp at left. Taller set-back bay with 3 tall narrow windows grouped toward centre.

SW ELEVATION: asymmetrical elevation with dominant 4-light canted window (appearing as bowed bay) at recessed centre rising into further tower-like bay with widely spaced tripartite window. Lower projecting flanking bays, that to right with 3 small windows over 3 windows at raised basement, bay to left with 3 bipartite windows over projecting blank raised basement, further single window on right return.

NW AND SE ELEVATIONS: variety of elements to asymmetrically fenestrated side elevations, NW elevation incorporates raised basement with vehicular entrance.Predominantly multi-pane timber casement windows; lead cames to chapel windows; some metal and plastic windows to NW. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: chapel with granite catafalque, raised reredos-style table, timber-screened organ loft and boarded timber dadoes and ceiling. Chapel flanked by memorial halls with timber casket shelves.

MEMORIAL GARDEN, BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: Memorial Garden with flat-coped, random rubble, stepped boundary walls; 2 pairs of flat-coped, square-plan, bull-faced ashlar gatepiers with quadrants and decorative 2-leaf metal-work gates with 'ABERDEEN CREMATORIUM' at top rail.

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