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Watts Mortuary Chapel, Compton Cemetery, Surrey: a wall bench

RIBA Ref No RIBA48589
Architect/DesignerWatts, Mary Seton (1850-1938)
Artist/PhotographerGalwey, Reginald Hugo de Burgh (1917-1971)
CountryUK: England
CityCompton
Subject Date1901
Image Date1961
ViewExterior
StyleArts & Crafts
MediumPhotoprint
Library ReferenceAP500/8
OrientationLandscape
Colour InfoBlack and white
CreditArchitectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections
SubjectChapels ; Decorative stonework ; Brickwork ; Cemeteries ; Terracotta ; Seating ; Furniture
NOTES: This mortuary chapel was designed and built by Mary Seton Watts, craftswoman and second wife of the artist G. F. Watts, as a gift to the parish when Compton Parish Council created a new cemetery in 1895. It is one of the few surviving monuments to the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement, the exterior was completed in 1898 and the interiors completed in 1901.
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