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The Watts Mortuary Chapel (locally known as Watts Cemetery Chapel) is a Gothic Revival chapel and mortuary located in the village of Compton in Surrey. It is a Grade I listed building. When Compton Parish Council created a new cemetery, local resident artist Mary Fraser-Tytler, the wife of Victorian era painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts, offered to design and build a new mortuary chapel. Tytler was a follower of the Home Arts and Industries Association, set up by Earl Brownlow in 1885 to encourage handicrafts among the lower classes, and the chapel was the Watts's contribution to this characteristically Victorian preoccupation with social improvement through creative enlightenment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Watts Chapel ) 〕 A group of local amateurs and enthusiasts, many of whom later went on with Mary Fraser-Tytler to found the Compton Potters' Arts Guild, constructed the chapel from 1896 to 1898; virtually every village resident was involved. The ground plan is essentially circular; from the outside the building has the look of a Roman Italianate chapel. Local villagers were invited to decorate the chapel under Mary's guidance, resulting in an interior that fuses art nouveau and Celtic influences, combined with Mary's own original style.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Watts Chapel )〕 Each member of Fraser-Tytler's evening class, led by Louis Deuchars, had a separate job, with 74 Compton villagers taking part. G.F. Watts paid for the project and also painted a version of ''The All-Pervading'' for the altar only three months before he died. The graves display sayings influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement, including "The Morning Stars Sang Together" and, inside the chapel, "Their hope is full of immortality but the souls of the righteous are in the hands of God."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Compton Potter's Arts Guild )〕 Members of the Huxley family, including Aldous Huxley, are buried within the chapel grounds. The Chapel is open Monday to Friday: 8am - 5pm, Saturday to Sunday and Bank Holidays: 10am - 5:30pm and is managed by Watts Gallery.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Watts Gallery - )〕 ==Gallery== Image:Wattschapel-4At8-0671.jpg|Chapel view showing campanile Image:Wattschapel-4At8-0674.jpg|Chapel, showing in foreground terracotta grave marker made in the Compton pottery Image:Watts mortuary chapel outside.jpg|Watts mortuary chapel Image:watts mortuary chapel altar 1.jpg|The altar Image:Wattschapel-4At8-0679.jpg|Chapel ceiling apex showing the 4 seraphs Image:Wattschapel-4At8-0680.jpg|Chapel showing 1 of 4 embrasures, 2 of 4 seraphs, 6 of 24 angels (half face you and half face away) and the medallions. At front is the altar Image:Wattschapel-4At8-0688.jpg|Tree of life, girdle of the earth and angels 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Watts Mortuary Chapel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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