CITY OF LONDON CEMETERY
The Grade I-listed City of London Cemetery is one of the largest municipal cemeteries in Europe. Anyone may be buried there irrespective of City connections or religious beliefs. The 200-acre grounds in Manor Park, east London, were laid out between 1853 and 1855 by William Haywood to relieve the appalling overcrowding of inner London's burial grounds. The main entrance, with its splendid Gothic arches and tiled roofs with fish-scale decoration, is one of the eight Grade II-listed buildings within the cemetery. There are large monuments commemorating people whose remains were transferred from twenty-two over-populated inner-city churchyards. The largest is the Grade II-listed monument (above) erected in 1871 over lead coffins from St Andrew Holborn and St Sepulchre. Traditional Crematorium ...