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Woking Crematorium was founded in 1878, when a piece of land close to St John's Village was bought by Sir Henry Thompson. He was a surgeon and Physician to the Queen . In 1874, he was a founder and first president of the Cremation Society of Great Britain .
In 1888, 28 cremations took place at the venue. In 1891, Woking Crematorium added a chapel, pioneering the concept of a crematorium being a venue for funerals as well as cremation. The Cremation Society of Great Britain drew up the original forms of certification for cremation which were to be adopted as the basis for the first Cremation Act in ...
Woking Crematorium, the oldest in the United Kingdom. Guildford Crematorium; Randalls Park Crematorium, Leatherhead; Woking Crematorium; Tyne and Wear.
Woking Crematorium, close to St John's, was opened in March 1885 as the first purpose-built crematorium in the UK. [359] The required land was purchased from the London Necropolis Company in 1878 by Sir Henry Thompson, founder of The Cremation Society. [360] The crematory and columbarium were built in 1879 [361] and the chapel was added in 1888 ...
In 1879 Woking Crematorium was built at St John's, to be used for the first time in 1884 when the first modern cremation in the UK was performed. Sculpture of a Wellsian Martian Tripod near the Planets Entertainment centre, Woking .
Maitland Crematorium, South Africa. A crematorium, crematory or cremation center is a venue for the cremation of the dead. Modern crematoria contain at least one cremator (also known as a crematory, retort or cremation chamber), a purpose-built furnace. In some countries a crematorium can also be a venue for open-air cremation.
[note 6] Woking Crematorium, first used for human cremation in 1885, [41] cooperated closely with the LNC, as they hoped to prevent the LNC building their own crematorium at Brookwood. [42] The LNC never built their own crematorium, although a columbarium (building for the storage of cremation ashes) was added to Brookwood Cemetery in 1910. [38]
In 1878 the Cremation Society of Great Britain bought an isolated piece of the LNC's Brookwood land and built Woking Crematorium on the site. [100] [note 14] The crematorium was completed in 1879 but Richard Cross, the Home Secretary, bowed to strong protests from local residents and threatened to prosecute if any cremations were conducted. [101]