Research Catalog

Title

London cemeteries : an illustrated guide and gazetteer / Hugh Meller & Brian Parsons.

Author

Meller, Hugh.

Publication

Stroud, Glocs. : History Press, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Parsons, Brian

Description

xxiiv, 423 p. : ill., 1 map; 25 cm.

Summary

The cemeteries of Greater London have been a neglected area of the capital's history. They are filled not only with the remains of recent generations but also with a wealth of architectural and social history that is described here in an entertaining and eloquent narrative full of picturesque melancholy. Part one records the origins of London's cemeteries and includes introductory chapters on cemetery history, planning, architecture, epitaphs and natural history. Part Two is a gazetteer with descriptions of all the cemeteries in Greater London, together with short biographies of the celebrated people buried in them. The text is illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs and a wide range of rarely seen archive images."London Cemeteries" is an important source for biographical and genealogical research, and a compendium of material for the architectural historian.

Subjects

• London (England) > Description and travel > 1981- > Guidebooks
• Cemeteries > England > London > Directories

Note

• First published in 1981 by Avebury Pub. Co., Amersham, England.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-386) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

History -- Planning -- Monuments and buildings -- Epitaphs -- Flora and fauna.

ISBN

• 9780752461830 (pbk)
• 0752461834 (pbk)

OCLC

779581188

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library