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Watts Mortuary Chapel, Compton Cemetery, Surrey: terracotta decoration

RIBA Ref No RIBA45116
Architect/DesignerWatts, Mary Seton (1850-1938)
Artist/PhotographerKamen, Ruth
CountryUK: England
CityCompton
Subject Date1901
Image Date2009
ViewExterior
StyleArts & Crafts
MediumDigital image
Library Reference(Kamen Surrey 11222)
OrientationLandscape
Colour InfoColour
CreditRuth Kamen / RIBA Collections
SubjectChapels ; Roofs ; Brickwork ; Cemeteries ; Terracotta
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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