![]() ![]() ![]() She is supposed to have taken many names for her creations from headstones even that of "Peter Rabbett" as it was found on one of the grave markers. The cemetery has an interesting connection to Beatrix Potter who lived nearby. The cemetery centred around a domed chapel at one end, with long colonnades leading up to it flanked by catacombs which were seen as a cheaper burial option. Near Earl's Court, the Brompton Cemetery was originally known as the West of London and Westminster Cemetery. In 1851, Tallis's Illustrated London commented, "The grounds are planted with great taste, many of the monuments are extremely beautiful and the chapels have considerable architectural merit." In 1865, when its first superintendent died, it was discovered that he had managed to mulct the company of eighteen thousand pounds. Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the two cemeteries of the "Magnificent Seven" located south of the river Thames (the other being West Norwood Cemetery). With 52 acres of ground, it was the second largest of the Victorian Cemeteries. Perhaps the least known of the "Seven," Nunhead Cemetery, originally All Saint's Cemetery, was founded by the London Cemetery Company, which also founded Highgate. This marks the grave of Frank Bostock an extraordinary animal trainer of the last years of the nineteenth and the earliest years of the twentieth cemetery. Joanna Vassa, the daughter of Olaudah Equiano an eighteenth century leader for the emancipation of slaves and himself an ex-slave, is buried here.Īmong the many fascinating graves to be found here is one, the monument of which features a magnificent lion. As well it was a favourite resting place for many of the leaders of the Abolition movement. Here lie the founders of the Salvation Army, William and Catherine Booth, along with their son Bramwell and many others connected to that church. Not only was it a non-denominational place of burial, it was unique in combining the cemetery function with an educational arboretum bounded with 2,500 trees and shrubs laid out in alphabetical order.īecause of its non-denominational origins, Abney Park soon became the favoured place of burial for non-conformists of all persuasions. For more than 100 years it functioned as a graveyard, only ceasing as a place of burial in the 1970s. Here are some brief notes on the remaining four.Ībney Park Cemetery, one of the "Magnificent Seven," was created in 1840 and was the first completely non-denominational garden cemetery in Europe. In that blog I only discussed three of the cemeteries. In an earlier blog I wrote about the "Magnificent Seven," the cemeteries created in the 1840s to take pressure off the city of London. ![]()
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