Waiting room, Camberwell New Cemetery
Camberwell New Cemetery, Brenchley Gardens
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378389
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Waiting room, Camberwell New Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- Camberwell New Cemetery, Brenchley Gardens
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378389
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Waiting room, Camberwell New Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- Camberwell New Cemetery, Brenchley Gardens
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:
- Camberwell New Cemetery, Brenchley Gardens
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 35770 74613
Details
TQ3574NE
636-1/63/117
SOUTHWARK
BRENCHLEY GARDENS (south west side)
Waiting room, Camberwell New Cemetery
GV
II
Cemetery waiting room, now utility shed. 1928-29. By Aston Webb, and his son, Maurice. Rubble masonry with stone dressings. Blue-green slate laid in diminishing courses.
EXTERIOR: one storey and single, three-light, gable-facing attic dormer. One window range to returns. Three bay, round-arched loggia to ground floor, each pier treated as a battered buttress; returns of loggia pierced by a round-arched opening; moulded coping to low parapet above. Symmetrical-arched entrance set behind centre bay of loggia; boarded door of original design; to either side a three-light, segmental-arched window with simply moulded mullions. One return a two-light, flat-arched window rises from ground floor to attic. Single-storey, gabled extension to rear. All windows with moulded stone mullions.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Gothic in feeling, but with an attention to detail, material and workmanship which betrays an Arts and Crafts sensibility.
Forms a group with the Gates, Lodge and Mortuary Chapels (qqv).
Listing NGR: TQ3577074613
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470690
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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