26/09/2024
Lovely venue
August 2019 -- Whitley Bay Crematorium opened in 1960 following the conversion of the existing 1913 Cemetery Chapel designed by Edward Cratney of Newcastle. The Cemetery Chapel is an Arts and Crafts style building, of coursed blue/grey granite with ashlar dressings and Westmorland slate roofs.
The main chapel has a projecting tower topped by an octagonal spire clad in copper sheeting with a tall finial. The chapel contains some very fine quality Arts and Crafts style plaster decoration carried out by G P Bankart and similar style wooden fittings carried out by J P Bertram & Sons. Originally the nave and chancel of the chapel were separated by a tripartite, carved timber and glazed screen, only the outer frame which now survives.
The conversion to a crematorium was designed by Cordingly and McIntyre, Durham, for the County Borough of Whitley Bay (now North Tyneside Council). There is no Garden of Remembrance but an adjoining flower room was added. The Cemetery Chapel and Crematorium was listed Grade II in 2003.