Chapel and Attached Ancillary Areas at Taunton Deane Crematorium
CHAPEL AND ATTACHED ANCILLARY AREAS AT TAUNTON DEANE CREMATORIUM, WELLINGTON NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376600
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel and Attached Ancillary Areas at Taunton Deane Crematorium
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL AND ATTACHED ANCILLARY AREAS AT TAUNTON DEANE CREMATORIUM, WELLINGTON NEW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376600
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel and Attached Ancillary Areas at Taunton Deane Crematorium
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL AND ATTACHED ANCILLARY AREAS AT TAUNTON DEANE CREMATORIUM, WELLINGTON NEW ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL AND ATTACHED ANCILLARY AREAS AT TAUNTON DEANE CREMATORIUM, WELLINGTON NEW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Taunton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 20628 24007
Details
ST 2024 TAUNTON, FORMER MB WELLINGTON NEW ROAD
744/13/10008 Chapel and attached
ancillary areas at Taunton
Deane Crematorium
GV II
Chapel and attached ancillary spaces. 1963. Potter and Hare. Local random rubble stone in white, grey and brown; copper-covered low pitched roof to chapel and flat felted roofs to ancillary areas. Tower partly clad in thin stone slabs and partly precast concrete panels. Aisleless chapel with north end slightly canted outwards to a point and catafalque set in apsidal recess at south end. Entrance hall to east and offices, crematory and ancillary areas to east and south. Chapel opens on to semi-enclosed garden with covered area on south side. Tall chapel with north and south walls of stone, each canted out to a point and with the pitched roof canting outward above these points. Semi-circular wall of chambers containing catafalque is visible above single storey ancillary areas to south and east. East wall of chapel is rendered and west wall is fully glazed to the garden, with five facetted composition pilotis rising full height between 2-light glazed panels. Narrow horizontal ventilting windows form transom-like division at single storey level. Asymmetrical folded timber ceiling emerges outside the glazing on east and west sides, and glazing rises to points between pilotis. Crematory rises above single storey areas and from it rises rectangular tower, containing chimney flue. Chapel has exposed random uncoursed rubble stone to north and south walls. At south end a canted and pointed aperture lined with the same stone leads into the room with the catafalque. North wall has vertical floor to ceiling strip windows with stained glass in muted greens and blues, deeply recessed (both internally and externally) and unusually set in rough textured aluminium boxes of various sizes instead of lead. The stained glass is by sculptor Geoffrey Clarke, who also designed the altar cross and candlesticks, in rough textured, cast alumimium. Facetted slatted timber ceiling, painted. Original black metal light fittings in clusters.
A beautifully detailed and crafted crematorium building which combines local materials with a modern idiom and contains works of decorative art of considerable merit. Part of group with the circular Memorial Chapel to the east (qv).
Listing NGR: ST2062824007
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470606
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Builder in 8 November, (1963), 937-41
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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