Wilbury Hills Chapel and Cemetery

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 Approach to Landscape Design

The relationship between the rural setting and the proximity of the Historically important Garden City of Letchworth is the starting point for the proposed site development. Phase 1 of the development forms a hinge between the open field plots to the North and East and the more domestic scale of the gardens and verges of Letchworth. To a certain extent ones’ view of the Burial ground landscape this year is an exercise in creative imagination. Areas of dense tree planting and screening are represented by small wipps, (which give no hint of the structure and order envisaged for the site), planed hedges are currently areas of small stocks with protective mulch ground cover, only the meadow area has established its self in the short time since project completion. (…)

The Chapel Building

The chapel building forms an intimate set of spaces.  The highest point of the building is the roof of the entrance hall, which acts as an orientation point for the site. The main hall for meetings and services takes the form of an adjacent, contiguous structure. (…)

Type of Cemetery: 
Other Cemeteries
Contemporary: 
Yes
calculated_country: 
United Kingdom

Points of interest

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