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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.
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 .
The first purpose-built crematorium in England was Woking Crematorium, which was built in 1878 and is still in use. In Scandinavia , approximately 30 to 70 percent (in large cities up to 90 percent) of the dead were cremated around the mid-1980s.
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 1885, the first official cremation took place at Woking Crematorium, and ten cremations are recorded as being performed in the following year. In 1892 a crematorium opened in Manchester followed by one in Glasgow in 1895 and one in Liverpool in 1896.
Maitland Crematorium, South Africa. A crematorium or crematory 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.