Description

TQ14NE DORKING REIGATE ROAD

850/10/10020 Dorking Cemetery Lodge,
entrance arch, former
mortuary and walls

GV II

Cemetery lodge with attached entrance arch, mortuary chapel and walls. Built in 1856 by the firm of Cubitt and sons to the design of Henry Clutton. Early English style. Built of flint with stone dressings and tiled roof with ridge tiles and two stone chimneystacks. Lodge to extreme left of two storeys and attics; 2:1 windows to front. Windows have Caernarvon arches and have late C20 UPVC replacement windows. L-shaped plan. Front has one two-light casement and one four-light casement to first floor. Gabled dormer. Plinth and bands between floors. Rear has lower gabled wing of two bays with external chimneystack. Adjoining is an entrance archway and former mortuary of one storey. To the left is a Caernarvon-arched pedestrian arch, an arched carriage entrance under gable with kneelers. Three lancets, a triple arched window and a further lancet to front elevation. Rear has timber-framed verandah and gable. Attached is a low flint cemetery wall with brick buttresses, stone coping, brick and stone gatepiers and cast iron gates with quatrefoil motifs.

Listing NGR: TQ1745549942

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666967

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