Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26483530

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)