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The interior of the chapel The cremator at Woking Crematorium in the 1870s, before the chapel and buildings were constructed Woking Crematorium in the early 20th century. 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 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, 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 ...
Canley Cemetery and Crematorium, Coventry; Gornal Wood Cemetery and Crematorium, Brierley Hill; Lodge Hill Crematorium, Birmingham; Powke Lane Crematorium, Rowley Regis; Robin Hood Cemetery and Crematorium, Solihull; Rycroft Crematorium, Walsall (defunct) Sandwell Valley Crematorium, West Bromwich; Stourbridge Crematorium; Streetly Crematorium ...
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.
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The Cremation Society were keen to prevent a competitor to Woking Crematorium, and sought to cooperate with the LNC. [83] The fares for the transport of mourners and coffins on the London Necropolis Railway had been fixed by Parliament in 1852 at 6s for a living first class passenger and £1 for a first class coffin (in 1891 worth about £41 ...
Description: Locator map of the Borough of Woking (red) — in Surrey, England.. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 160%; Date: 2 August 2011: Source