Crematory and Columbarium of Woking Crematorium
CREMATORY AND COLUMBARIUM OF WOKING CREMATORIUM, HERMITAGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378246
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Crematory and Columbarium of Woking Crematorium
- Statutory Address:
- CREMATORY AND COLUMBARIUM OF WOKING CREMATORIUM, HERMITAGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378246
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Crematory and Columbarium of Woking Crematorium
- Statutory Address 1:
- CREMATORY AND COLUMBARIUM OF WOKING CREMATORIUM, HERMITAGE ROAD
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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:
- CREMATORY AND COLUMBARIUM OF WOKING CREMATORIUM, HERMITAGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Woking (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 97484 57882
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/07/2011
SU 95NE
5/55
BOROUGH OF WOKING
HERMITAGE ROAD
Crematory and Columbarium
of Woking Crematorium
GV
II
Columbarium and crematory 1879. 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 290756
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crosby, A, History of Woking, (1982), 107-108
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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