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Latitude: 51.3117 / 51°18'42"N
Longitude: -0.6027 / 0°36'9"W
OS Eastings: 497484
OS Northings: 157883
OS Grid: SU974578
Mapcode National: GBR FBJ.QFT
Mapcode Global: VHFV7.H9Q8
Plus Code: 9C3X896W+MW
Entry Name: Crematory and Columbarium of Woking Crematorium
Listing Date: 6 January 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1378246
English Heritage Legacy ID: 290756
ID on this website: 101378246
Location: Knaphill, Woking, Surrey, GU21
County: Surrey
District: Woking
Electoral Ward/Division: St John's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Woking
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Surrey
Church of England Parish: Woking St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Guildford
Tagged with: Crematorium Architectural structure
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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
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