Building record MDO47091 - Weymouth Crematorium

Weymouth Crematorium was built in 1939 for Weymouth Borough Council, it was designed by G Charlton Wilkins, under the supervision of R W Vine (Borough engneer and Surveyor) and buitl by A E Whetton, Weymouth. The design of the building is a modern treatment of the Romanesque with a 42ft tower as the central feture of the bulding. Built of brown rustic brick, with cast stone copings, dressings and cills, the main roofs are of dark antique Roman tiles. The chapel is entered through a small vestible with access to the columbarium from the north-east side of the chapel. A large circular flower-bed, with a central stone sundial, formed the main feature of the original Garden of Rest.

<1> Grainger, Hilary J, 2005, Death Redesigned: British Crematoria - History, Architecture and Landscape, 495-6 (Monograph). SDO20094.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1534520 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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