The Columbarium, Lawnswood Cemetery, Leeds
Extract from the National Heritage List for England:
Columbarium. Dated 1933, dedicated July 1934. By Col AE Kirk, completed by Messrs. Kirk and Tomlinson of Leeds. Red brick and Portland stone, pantile roof, marble details. A tall single-storey building in Classical style with war memorial and tiers of niches containing cinerary urns; the portico continued as L-shaped colonnaded wings enclosing a paved area with low walls, facing NE. The chapel is apsidal, barrel-vaulted, with 3 recesses along each side containing the shelves with urns, some closed by patterned bronze grilles; round-arched clerestory windows; the entrance has glazed bronze double doors, overlight with elaborate scrolled decoration, keyed architrave, round window above. The high round-arched portico has columns in antis and entablature with 2 urns, panelled reveals to the arch. The round arch repeated in the colonnades, the back walls with inscribed plaques; the ends return as round-arched doorways with stone architrave and bronze fanlight, hipped roof. The outside face of the wings and chapel also carries memorial plaques and inscribed stone panels.
