East Finchley Cemetery
East Finchley Cemetery is a cemetery and crematorium in East Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet. The facilities are owned and managed by the City of Westminster.[1]
The St Marylebone Burial Board purchased 47 acres (0.19 km2) of Newmarket Farm in 1854;[1] and the cemetery, then known as St Marylebone Cemetery, was laid out by architects Barnet & Brick Ltd. the following year with an Anglican Grade II listed chapel.[2] Principal features are two Lebanon Cedar trees planted on the front lawn. The crematorium was opened in 1937.[1]
Due to local government reorganisation, the cemetery was managed by the Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone – from 1900; and became the responsibility of the City of Westminster in 1965, when the cemetery became known by its current name. The cemetery contains about 22,000 interments; and remains open for burials.[1]
The cemetery was awarded a Green Flag Award in 2007, 2008 and 2009.[1] It is also a Local Nature Reserve.[3]
The nearest London Underground station is East Finchley, on the Northern Line.
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[edit] Notable burials
- Robert Donat – Actor[1]
- Sir Henry Bishop – Professor of Music at Oxford and operatic composer[1]
- Leopold Stokowski – Conductor[1]
- Sir Robert Harmsworth – Newspaper Publisher with a memorial by Edwin Lutyens[1]
- Lord Northcliffe – Founder of the Daily Mail[1]
- Austen Chamberlain – Foreign Secretary, recipient of Nobel Peace Prize, son of Joseph Chamberlain and brother of Neville Chamberlain[1]
- Sir George Hayter – Queen Victoria’s principal painter in ordinary[1]
- Melanie Appleby - one half of pop duo Mel and Kim
- Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk – Memorial chapel and Mausoleum[1]
- Thomas Henry Huxley – Scientist[1]
- Harry Champion Music Hall Singer
- Heath Robinson – Artist and cartoonist[1]
- Marie Studholme - Actress and Singer[4]
- George Walters - Sergeant in the 49th Foot who won the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Inkermann in 1854[1]
- Little Tich Music Hall singer and dancer.
- Gaynor Rowlands Actress and Singer
- Thomas Stevens - Cyclist, the first one to circle the globe by bicycle[1]
There are 75 Commonwealth burials of World War I in the cemetery. There are a further 79 burials of World War II. There is a Screen Wall memorial, behind the Cross of Sacrifice, recording the names of the 1939-1945 casualties who were cremated.[5]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q East Finchley Cemetery (City of Westminster) accessed 26 January 2006
- ^ Details from listed building database (199257) . Images of England. English Heritage. accessed 26 January 2006
- ^ East Finchley Cemetery, London Wildweb
- ^ Marie Studholme, actress and Gaiety Girl (About Postcards) accessed 26 January 2009
- ^ East Finchley Cemetery and St Marylebone Crematorium (Commonwealth War Graves Commission) accessed 26 January 2009
[edit] External links
- East Finchley Cemetery (City of Westminster)
- War Graves (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
