Building record MDO47414 - Bournemouth Crematorium, Bournemouth North Cemetery, Strouden Avenue, Bournemouth

The cemetery chapel was designed in 1927 by W L Clowes, it did not contain a crematory at this time but was designed with an underground chamber that would in the future contain one. A Gothic style building with a prominent apse and substantial tower, work to install the crematory was begun in 1937 and the crematorium opened in 1938. The crematorium is surrounded by a Garden of Memory. The crematorium was extended in 1959, a wing containing a Chapel of Memory, a waiting room, refreshment room, kitchen, staff room and toilets was added to the west. With a second phase of building adding a new West Chapel, vestry, organ chamber and and an underground committal room. New chimneys, flues and furnaces were added in 1973 and the Garden of Rest was extended.

<1> Grainger, Hilary J, 2005, Death Redesigned: British Crematoria - History, Architecture and Landscape, 109, 132, 135, 379-80 (Monograph). SDO20094.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1519638 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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