Description

TQ3574NE
636-1/63/117

SOUTHWARK
BRENCHLEY GARDENS (south west side)
Waiting room, Camberwell New Cemetery

GV
II
Cemetery waiting room, now utility shed. 1928-29. By Aston Webb, and his son, Maurice. Rubble masonry with stone dressings. Blue-green slate laid in diminishing courses.

EXTERIOR: one storey and single, three-light, gable-facing attic dormer. One window range to returns. Three bay, round-arched loggia to ground floor, each pier treated as a battered buttress; returns of loggia pierced by a round-arched opening; moulded coping to low parapet above. Symmetrical-arched entrance set behind centre bay of loggia; boarded door of original design; to either side a three-light, segmental-arched window with simply moulded mullions. One return a two-light, flat-arched window rises from ground floor to attic. Single-storey, gabled extension to rear. All windows with moulded stone mullions.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Gothic in feeling, but with an attention to detail, material and workmanship which betrays an Arts and Crafts sensibility.

Forms a group with the Gates, Lodge and Mortuary Chapels (qqv).

Listing NGR: TQ3577074613

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26658797

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)