Hampstead Cemetery
Hampstead Cemetery is situated on Fortune Green Road,
The cemetery is open from 9am to 4:45pm in the summer (3:45pm in the winter) and from 10am on Sundays and bank holidays.
Location and History
Hampstead Cemetery is bordered on the northern side by the sports ground of
Opened in 1876, The entire site covers 26 acres, and an estimated 60,000 people are buried there. While there are no new grave spaces available, there is an area for cremated remains to the north of the cemetery, by the Fortune Green Road exit. The cemetery is managed by Islington and Camden Cemetery Service.
The cemetery boasts two Gothic-style chapels, both of which are listed buildings. There is also an entry lodge made of Kentish Rag and Bath stone. There has been some major work to these buildings under a scheme provided by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Notable Burials
Amongst the famous people interred there are:
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Charlotte Mew, poet
Other Notable Monuments
The cemetery also contains several graves notable either from an architectural point of view or for the eccentric inscriptions they bear.
Architecture
The Eastern part of the cemetery houses the so-called Bianchi Monument, a large triangular grave for the Gall family, executed in the finest
Similarly, the tomb of James Wilson ('Wilson Pasha'), Chief Engineer to the Egyptian Government (1875-1901), executed in red marble and also found in the eastern section, has a striking Egyptian look to it.
The monument built by the sculptor Sir William Goscombe John to his wife Marthe (d.1923) was stolen from the cemetery in 2001 but later returned after being spotted at an auction a few months later. It was then moved to East Finchley Cemetery but was once more stolen from a storage area in autumn 2006. It has not been recovered.
Inscriptions
The cemetery contains more than one grave with humorous or bizarre inscriptions. On the main avenue of the Eastern section can be seen the grave of John Kensit, (died 1902) a religious protestor who was "struck down by the missile of an assassin in
Nearby is the headstone of Charles Cowper Ross, "A man of the theatre", which bears the inscription:
What will be said,
When I am dead,
Of what I used to do?
They liked my smile?
I failed with style?
Or, more than likely, "Who?"
Flora and Fauna
The cemetery has a large number of mature ash trees. Other trees include yew, sycamore, Norway maple, silver birch, Lombardy poplar, purple cherry-plum, willow and Swedish whitebeam.
There is a wildlife area in the north part of the eastern half of the cemetery. This has been planted with trees, shrubs and wild flowers especially attractive to wildlife, such as field maple, hazel, oak, oxeye daisy, common knapweed and bird's-foot-trefoil. This is where most of the site's butterflies are to be found, including small white, speckled wood, holly blue, meadow brown and small copper.
Birds recorded in the cemetery include
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