The London Burial Grounds: Notes on Their History from the Earliest Times to the Present DayHolmes, Isabella M.
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The London Burial Grounds: Notes on Their History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Holmes, Isabella M.
Cemeteries -- England -- London -- History
152. _Globe Road Chapel Burial-ground_, also called Mile End
Cemetery.—The chapel is now Gordon Hall, and belongs to Dr. Stephenson
of the Children’s Homes. The burial-ground is in private hands. The
ground was very much overcrowded, and there were vaults under the
chapel, the schools and the sexton’s house, but all the part south of
the chapel was taken by the Great Eastern Railway Company. The existing
piece is about 670 square yards in extent, is closed and most untidy,
quantities of rubbish lying about amongst the tombstones.
153. _East London Cemetery_, Shandy Street, also called the Beaumont
Burial-ground.—2¼ acres. This was much crowded. It was laid out as a
playground by the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association in 1885, and
is maintained by the London County Council.
154. _Burial-ground of the Bancroft Almshouses_, Mile End Road.—The
People’s Palace is on the site of the almshouses, and part of the
burial-ground has been merged into the roadway on the east side of the
palace. St. Benet’s Church, Hall and Vicarage were built in this ground,
the church being consecrated in 1872. Three pieces still exist, in all
less than ½ acre; one is the vicarage garden, another is open to the
road, and the northern point is closed and roofed over, forming a little
yard where flag-staff’s, &c., are stored. The open part is also a
store-yard, having heaps of stones in it, besides much rubbish. There
are gravestones against the wall.
155. _Stepney Pest-field._—Many acres to the south of the London
Hospital were used for interments at the time of the plague, and the
Brewers’ Garden and the space by St. Philip’s Church are, according to
some authorities, part of the site originally called Stepney Mount. At
the Home Office it is believed that there have been no burials in the
ground round St. Philip’s, nor have there since it was St. Philip’s
churchyard; but I think there were long before the first St. Philip’s
Church or the Brewers’ Almshouses existed. The Brewers’ Garden is open
to the public at a charge of 1d.
156. _Jewish Burial-ground_, 70, Bancroft Road.—About 1,650 square
yards. This ground belongs to the Maiden Lane Synagogue, and is crowded
with upright gravestones. The grass is neglected. Burials still take
place. It is in a densely-populated district.
157. _Jewish Burial-ground_, Alderney Road.—1 acre. Formed in 1700,
enlarged in 1733. Belongs to the United Synagogue. The tombstones are
upright, and they are not so thick as in most of the Jewish grounds,
while the grass is kept more neatly.
158. _Jewish Burial-ground_, Mile End Road.—This ground is nearly ¾ acre
in extent, and is at the back of the Beth Holim Hospital. It belongs to
the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, the tombstones are flat, there are
several trees, and the ground is very neatly kept. Part of the graveyard
(where it is said that there have been no interments) has some seats in
it, and is used by the patients of the hospital as a garden.
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