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Nunhead Cemetery Indepth
Nunhead Cemetery is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries, located in
the Borough of Southwark in London. It is perhaps the least famous and
celebrated of them. Originally known as 'All Saints' Cemetery', it was
opened in 1840 by the London Cemetery Company.
The lodges and monumental entrance were designed by James Bunstone Bunning.
Notable Nunhead graves include:
Frederick Augustus Abel - cordite co-inventor
Charles Abbott - the 101 year old Ipswich Grocer and Charterhouse brother
Alfred Vance - English Music hall performer
Jenny Hill - another Music hall performer
There
is also an obelisk, the 'Scottish Political Martyrs Memorial',
dedicated to the leaders of the Friends of the People Society, including
Thomas Muir, Maurice Margarot, and Thomas Fyshe Palmer, who were
transported to Australia in 1794. The monument was erected by radical
M.P. Joseph Hume in 1837.
The cemetery is the setting for the
Victorian poet Charlotte Mew's exploration of death, insanity and social
alienation "In Nunhead Cemetery" and is the setting for Maurice Riordan's
final poem, "The January Birds" in his 2007 collection, The Holy Land.
The
Woman Between the Worlds, a 1994 science-fiction novel by F. Gwynplaine
MacIntyre set in Victorian England, depicts a funeral at Nunhead
Cemetery in 1898 for the burial (in a closed coffin) of a female
extra-terrestrial. The novel intentionally avoids citing a precise
location in Nunhead for this grave, in case some reader mistakenly
believes that genuine alien remains can be retrieved from the site.