The crematorium will be a modest, larch clad, structure designed to look, from a distance, like a cluster of traditional farm buildings.
Get closer, though and you will be struck by the sharp finishes and the confident and elegant roof lines. If you are attending a service, there will be a large waiting room to keep you out of the winter elements from where you will process into our ceremony hall. The ceremony hall will seat 120 and be dominated by a full-height picture window in front and centre of which will sit the coffin. The ceremony hall will have all the latest audio-visual equipment if you wish to use film, pictures and music to celebrate a life or webcast and record the funeral.
This cluster of buildings will sit in the middle of our site. We are being careful to protect the long-range views across the site from the Godstone Road, so half of the site will remain unplanted, but around the buildings and car parks we will plant hundreds of native trees, from semi mature specimens to whips.
There will also be a formal memorial garden of remembrance.
