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
203. _Friends Burial-ground_, Peckham Rye.—About 470 square yards. This
ground was purchased in 1821, it is behind the meeting-house in Hanover
Street, has some small flat gravestones in it, and is closed. It is most
beautifully kept with neatly mown grass and a border of flowers.
204. _Camberwell Cemetery_, Forest Hill Road.—29½ acres. First used in
1856. Open daily.
205. _Nunhead Cemetery_ (All Saints’).—50 acres. First used in 1840.
Open daily.
NEWINGTON.
206. _St. Mary’s Churchyard._—1¼ acres. This was enlarged in 1757 and
1834, and is now maintained as a public garden by the burial board, the
freehold being vested in the rector. It is well laid out.
207. _St. Peter’s Churchyard_, Walworth.—1¼ acres. This is also
maintained as a public garden by the Newington Burial Board, having been
laid out by the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, at the sole
cost of the Goldsmiths’ Company, and opened in May, 1895.
208. _Sutherland Congregational Chapel-ground_, Walworth.—This is close
to St. Peter’s, about 300 square yards in size, and closed. It has been
somewhat encroached on by the school, which was enlarged in 1889. A few
tombstones exist in the passage on the north side of the chapel and in
the ground at the back. It is fairly tidy.
209. _York Street Chapel-ground_, Walworth.—About 700 square yards at
the rear of the chapel and not visible from the street. It is closed and
full of tombstones, but is to be laid out.
210. _East Street Baptist Chapel-ground_, Walworth.—About 400 square
yards, with one tombstone in it. It is closed and very untidy.
211. _St. John’s Episcopal Chapel-ground_, Walworth.—In 1843 it was
estimated at 6,400 square yards. The chapel is in Penrose Street, and is
now the workshop of a scenic artist, the front wall having been
heightened for the purpose of advertising the _South London Press_. The
burial-ground is approached from Occupation Road, Manor Place, the
railway line going across it on arches, and it is now the vestry depôt
for carts, manure, gravel, &c. An adjoining plot is the site for the
baths and washhouses. This ground is in danger of being encroached upon,
and new bays for dust and other erections of the sort are often built in
it.
212. _New Bunhill Fields_, Deverell Street, New Kent Road (also called
Hoole and Martin’s).—¾ acre. This was a private speculation, and was
most indecently crowded. Between 1820 and 1838 10,000 bodies were buried
here, the vault under the chapel containing 1,800 coffins. The ground
was closed in 1853, and it then became a timber-yard. The chapel now
belongs to the Salvation Army, but the burial-ground is still
“Deverell’s timber-yard,” and is covered with high stacks of timber.
There are many sheds in it, and iron bars, &c.
ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR.
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