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Brompton Indepth
Brompton Cemetery is
located near Earl's Court in West Brompton, a part of the Borough of
Kensington & Chelsea in west London, England. It is managed by The
Royal Parks and is one of the Magnificent Seven.
While the
cemetery is still open for occasional new burials, today more people use
it as a public park than as a place for mourning the dead.
It
has featured in a number of films, including The Wisdom of Crocodiles
(starring Jude Law), Crush (Imelda Staunton and Andie MacDowell) and
"Johnny English" (starring Rowan Atkinson); as well as being used as a
location by photographers such as Bruce Weber.
History
The
cemetery was opened as part of an initiative in the mid-19th century to
provide seven large, modern cemeteries (sometimes called the
'Magnificent Seven') in a ring round the outside of London of which
Highgate Cemetery was another example. The inner-city cemeteries, mostly
the graveyards attached to individual churches, had long been unable to
cope with the number of burials and were seen as a hazard to health and
an undignified way to treat the dead.
Brompton Cemetery was
designed by Benjamin Baud and has at its centre a modest domed chapel
(in the style of the basilica of St. Peter's in Rome), reached by long
colonnades, and flanked by catacombs. The chapel is dated 1839.
Nutkins gravestone
Beatrix
Potter, who lived in The Boltons nearby, took the names of many of her
animal characters from tombstones in the cemetery and it is said that Mr
McGregor's walled garden was based on the colonnades. Names on
headstones included Mr Nutkins, Mr McGregor, a Tod (with that unusual
single 'd' spelling), Jeremiah Fisher, Tommy Brock - and even a Peter
Rabbett.