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The village of Compton in Surrey is not only blessed with decent pubs, ridiculously pretty houses and an excellent tea shop, but was the home of the Victorian Arts & Crafts artists, George Frederick Watts and his wife Mary. Their legacy is seen in two buildings on the edge of the village: Watts' own gallery, built to house his painting collection and the Watts Cemetery Chapel, designed by Mary and built by her and the local craftspeople she trained. The Chapel is a truly beautiful Romanesque brick building, covered with celtic-inspired moulded brickwork and with a gesso interior created by Mary and her craftspeople.
The Watts Gallery is currently the subject of a major restoration appeal, to restore and conserve both the building itself and its collection. It has just been featured on the BBC's Restoration Village series.
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