Welford Road Cemetery

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Welford Road Cemetery

Welford Road Cemetery is a public cemetery in Leicester, England.

History

The Leicester General Cemetery Company was founded in 1845, and the cemetery itself opened in 1849.

Anglican community was able to gain inclusion. The site was initially 17 acres (6.9 ha) in size, but was extended by 13 acres (5.3 ha) in 1894.[1]

The original parts of the cemetery were built to a symmetrical plan. Two adjacent chapels were built, serving both Anglicans and non-Anglicans.[2] Similarly, the original cemetery contained roughly equal areas of consecrated and unconsecrated ground.

The two chapels have now been demolished, as has a

chaplaincy, and the ornate 1895 entrance gates are still in place. A modern visitor's centre is located near the cemetery's main entrance.[2]

War graves

The cemetery contains over 300 British Commonwealth

Sir Reginald Blomfield.[4]

Notable burials

The dense collection of monuments in front of where the two chapels once stood demonstrates the symmetrical layout of the cemetery: the area on the left is unconsecrated ground for non-conformists, while the area on the right is consecrated ground for Anglicans.

A leaflet published by Leicester City Council identifies one hundred notable burials within the cemetery. The cemetery itself contains a large number of commemorative plaques, giving biographical information about notable interments.[5]

Controversy

Flattened and damaged gravestones in Welford Road Cemetery

Between 2002 and 2004 about 1000 memorials and

Court of Arches in 2006. However, in granting the faculty the Court required the Council to work with the Friends of Welford Road Cemetery and members of the local Polish community to restore those flattened memorials.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Welford Road Cemetery". Leicester City Council. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013.
  2. ^ a b c "History of the Cemetery". Leicester City Council. Archived from the original on 7 October 2013.
  3. ^ "CWGC cemetery report".
  4. ^ "Welford Road Cemetery (council website): events and information". Retrieved 2010-02-13.
  5. ^ "Welford Road Cemetery Leicester: A Guide to 100 Memorial Plaques" (PDF). Leicester City Council.
  6. ^ Herbert, Shiranikha (27 October 2006). "Gravestones judgment overturned on appeal" (PDF). Church Times. p. 29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2012.

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