Dark Destiny Cemetery Photography
Kensal Green Cemetery
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Kensal Green Open Days
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In-depth
Kensal Green Cemetery, located
in Kensal Green, London, England, was incorporated in 1832 by The
General Cemetery Company, and is the oldest of the 'Magnificent Seven'
cemeteries still in operation. It is the only such cemetery established
by an act of the British Parliament with a mandate that its bodies may
not be exhumed and cremated or the land sold for development. Once the
cemetery has exhausted all its interment space and can no longer
function as a cemetery the mandate requires that it remains a memorial
park. The General Cemetery Company constructed and runs the West London
Crematorium within the grounds of Kensal Green Cemetery. More cremations
than earth interments take place these days.
Whilst borrowing
from the ideals established at Père Lachaise in Paris some years before,
the Kensal Green Cemetery project was used as a design and management
basis for many cemetery projects throughout the British Empire of the
time. In Australia for example The Necropolis at Rookwood 1868 and
Picturesque Waverley Cemetery 1877 both in Sydney are noted for their
use of the "Gardenesque" landscape qualities and importantly self
sustaining management structures championed by The General Cemetery
Company.
The cemetery is the burial site of approximately
250,000 individuals in 65,000 graves, including upwards of 500 members
of the British nobility and 550 people listed in the Dictionary of
National Biography. A garden style cemetery, Kensal Green is the oldest
of seven private Victorian cemeteries located in the outskirts of
London. Adjacent to Kensal Green is St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery.
Interred
at Kensal Green is Marigold Frances Churchill, the daughter of Sir
Winston Churchill and Lady Clementine who died from a fever in 1921 at
age three. Also interred are two children of King George III of the
United Kingdom, who desired to be buried at Kensal Green instead of
Windsor Castle: Princess Sophia and her brother, Prince Augustus
Frederick, Duke of Sussex.