Photo of Watts Cemetery Chapel, a chapel near Compton, Surrey, south east England. — © Rob Farrow / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Watts Cemetery Chapel

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Watts Cemetery Chapel is a circular Arts and Crafts mortuary chapel at Compton, built between 1896 and 1898 to a design by Mary Watts, with a richly modelled terracotta interior made by villagers she taught. It stands in the hillside cemetery, free to visit, and forms part of the wider Watts Gallery site. Farncombe station is about 3km south-east.

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