Willesden Jewish Cemetery
Willesden Jewish Cemetery | |
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Nathan Solomon Joseph | |
Details | |
Established | 1873 |
Location | Beaconsfield Road, Willesden (London Borough of Brent), London NW10 2JE |
Country | England, United Kingdom |
Type | Orthodox Jewish |
Style | Victorian; English Gothic |
Owned by | United Synagogue Burial Society |
Size | about 8.5 hectares[1] |
No. of graves | 29,800[2] |
Website | Official website |
Find a Grave | Willesden Jewish Cemetery |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Willesden Jewish Cemetery (United Synagogue Cemetery) |
Designated | 4 September 2017 |
Reference no. | 1449184 |
Formation | 2015 |
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Legal status | Registered charity |
Purpose | To preserve the heritage of, increase accessibility to and increase biodiversity at Willesden Jewish Cemetery. |
Headquarters | Willesden Jewish Cemetery |
Head of Heritage | Miriam Marson |
Parent organization | United Synagogue |
Website | www |
The Willesden United Synagogue Cemetery, usually known as Willesden Jewish Cemetery, is a
In 2015, the
History and heritage listing
The cemetery, developed on ground purchased from
In 2017 Historic England listed the cemetery at Grade II[19][20] on the grounds of: its being the first venture of the United Synagogue; its having associations with many influential families and individuals who are buried there; its overall design by a prominent Jewish architect; "the quality, opulence and variety displayed by the monuments as a group, reflecting both Jewish traditions and English influences"; and its survival – "the Old Cemetery remains intact, whilst the subsequent evolution of the cemetery is well-documented and legible".[21]
War graves and listed war memorial
The cemetery has 33 Commonwealth service war graves from World War I,[nb 2] six of which form a small group by the Assembly Hall,[22] and 77 from World War II, 22 of them grouped in a war graves plot. These include the grave of Dudley Joel (1904–1941), businessman and Conservative Party politician, who died in World War II.[23]
In place of a
Other listed monuments
There are three other Grade II listed monuments at the cemetery:
- The tomb of Maximilian (Max) Eberstadt (1844–1891), who was secretary to the British merchant banker Ernest Cassel. His tomb was designed by Edward Burne-Jones.[7][26][27]
- The tomb of
- The tombs and burial enclosures of Baron Second World War bomb in 1941.[9]
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Cartoon of Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild
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Frederic, Lord Leighton
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Grave of Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery
See also
- List of people buried at Willesden Jewish Cemetery
- United Synagogue
- Liberal Jewish Cemetery, Willesden
- Willesden New Cemetery
- Jewish cemeteries in the London area
Notes
- ^ 23 members of the Rothschild family are buried in the cemetery.
Hinson, Tamara (15 October 2020). "A date with death: Why a visit to Willesden Jewish Cemetery is more uplifting than morbid". The Independent. Retrieved 5 November 2020. - ^ Eight of the Commonwealth service war graves from World War I are soldiers who were from, or had a connection to, Australia.
Page, Beth. "Willesden – Brent: Willesden Jewish Cemetery". WW1 Australian soldiers & nurses who rest in the United Kingdom. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
References
- ^ "United Synagogue Willesden Cemetery". London Gardens Trust. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ a b "Willesden Cemetery "House of Life"". United Synagogue. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ "Willesden Cemetery". United Synagogue. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ^ "New Listings Announced to Celebrate 70 Years of Protecting England's Historic Buildings". Historic England. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ^ Historic England (4 September 2017). "Willesden Jewish Cemetery (United Synagogue Cemetery) (1449184)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ a b Historic England (5 September 2017). "War Memorial, Willesden Jewish Cemetery (1449842)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ a b Historic England (5 September 2017). "Tomb of Max Eberstadt, Willesden Jewish Cemetery (United Synagogue Cemetery) (1449845)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ a b c Historic England (7 March 2017). "Tomb of Rosalind Franklin (1444176)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ a b Historic England (5 September 2017). "Burial enclosures of Mayer, Juliana and Hannah Rothschild in Willesden Jewish Cemetery (United Synagogue Cemetery) (1449844)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ "Willesden Jewish Cemetery 'House of Life'". National Lottery Heritage Fund. 17 September 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ^ a b "Historic cemetery to get £2m heritage facelift". The Jewish Chronicle. 5 November 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
- ^ Abrams, Hester (July 2017). "Project breathes life into Willesden cemetery" (PDF). Jewish Renaissance. p. 10. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- ^ "House of Life". Willesden Jewish Cemetery. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- ^ Oryszczuk, Stephen (7 September 2020). "Willesden Cemetery opens to day-visitors after Lottery-backed conservation". Jewish News. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ^ Keith, Lauren (3 November 2020). "This historic cemetery in London is now open to tours". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ Johnson, Alex (2 September 2020). "London Cemetery to Host 'Life Lines' Virtual Literary Gathering". Fine Books and Collections. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
- ^ Raffray, Nathalie (9 October 2019). "Exhibition to reveal secrets of the 'Rolls-Royce of Jewish Cemeteries' in Willesden". Brent & Kilburn Times. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
- ^ "Inauguration of Jewish Cemetery". The Jewish Chronicle. 10 October 1873.
- ^ "Lease of life for a Victorian cemetery". The Times. 24 August 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
- ^ Kennedy, Maev (7 August 2017). "Grade II-listed for 70th anniversary". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- ^ Historic England (1 August 2017). "Complex of Funerary Buildings at Willesden Jewish Cemetery (United Synagogue Cemetery) (1448718)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ "Willesden Jewish Cemetery". British Jews in the First World War: We Were There Too. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
- ^ "Lieutenant Joel, Dudley Jack Bernarto". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
- ^ "Willesden Jewish Cemetery". Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- from the original on 13 December 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
- ^ "Design for the Gravestone of Max Eberstadt". Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ^ Banerjee, Jacqueline (21 November 2018). "Caricature – Line of Heads: Burne-Jones and Anti-Semitism". The Victorian Web. Retrieved 2 December 2023.