THE WATTS MEMORIAL CLOISTER

THE WATTS MEMORIAL CLOISTER, DOWN LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188385
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:: THE WATTS MEMORIAL CLOISTER
Statutory Address:: THE WATTS MEMORIAL CLOISTER, DOWN LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188385
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:: THE WATTS MEMORIAL CLOISTER
Statutory Address 1:: THE WATTS MEMORIAL CLOISTER, DOWN LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE WATTS MEMORIAL CLOISTER, DOWN LANE

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County:: Surrey
District:: Guildford (District Authority)
Parish:: Compton
National Grid Reference:: SU 95668 47394

Details

SU 94 NE COMPTON C.P. DOWN LANE

3/62 The Watts Memorial Cloister 14.6.67

GV II

Cloister. Designed and built in 1911 by Mary Seton Watts. Red brick with stone plinth, hipped Roman pantiled roof. Rectangular, single storey with left hand range canted forward at an angle. Twenty bays with a series of interlacing round headed arches on square, four sectioned piers with flat Abaci and square piers, or four columns with blocked in capitals. Wider entrance bay to left of centre, six bays from left end. Lead screen gates with cross and scroll, Celtic style, decoration, approximately 2½ feet high. Opposite the gates on the rear wall of the cloister is a wall monument of terracotta to G F Watts. Three bays, centre one projecting between half columns with Art Nouveau capitals. Braced base. Flanking bays contain classical figures, recumbent effigy of Watts to centre. Further tablet to Mary Watts. The graves are outside and immediately opposite the cloister entrance.

Listing NGR: SU9567247392

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Legacy System number:: 288319
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.