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HER 13494 - CREMATORY AND COLUMBARIUM OF WOKING CREMATORIUM
Columbarium and crematory 1885. 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
| Record Type | Historic Building |
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| Grid Reference | SU 974 578 |
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| District | Woking, Surrey |
| Evidence Type | Monument Type | Date Range: |
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| EXTANT BUILDING | COLUMBARIUM CREMATORIUM | Post Medieval 19th Century |
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