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Watts Cemetery Chapel

Art Nouveau architecture in EnglandArt Nouveau church buildings in the United KingdomChapels in EnglandChurches completed in 1896Grade I listed buildings in Surrey
Monuments and memorials in SurreyRomanesque Revival church buildings in EnglandTerracottaUse British English from October 2014
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The Watts Cemetery Chapel or Watts Mortuary Chapel is a chapel in a Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) version of Celtic Revival in the village cemetery of Compton in Surrey. While the overall architectural structure is loosely Romanesque Revival, in the absence of any appropriate Celtic models, the lavish decoration in terracotta relief carving and paintings is Celtic Revival, here seen on an unusually large scale. According to the local council, it is "a unique concoction of art nouveau, Celtic, Romanesque and Egyptian influence with Mary's own original style".Other responses have been less positive. Ian Nairn, in the 1971 Surrey volume of the Buildings of England series, described the interior as "one of the most soporific rooms in England" and regretted "the intolerable torpor and weariness of the motifs". It is a Grade I listed building.

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