Nunhead cemetery

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skullcandy

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This is my 1st explore so please be kind.

Taken from the friends of Nunhead cemetery page:-

Perhaps the least known, but most attractive, of the great Victorian Cemeteries of London. Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the seven great Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London. It contains examples of the magnificent monuments erected in memory of the most eminent citizens of the day, which contrast sharply with the small, simple headstones marking common, or public, burials. It's formal avenue of towering limes and the Gothic gloom of the original Victorian planting gives way to paths which recall the country lanes of a bygone era.

Front view of the chapel
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plant on the rear corner wall
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Chapel window
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Chapel spire
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Chapel abbey/font
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Holding hands forever
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Shrubbery
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Script
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Lost but not forgotten
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Overhang
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Cherished forever
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Take a seat
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the 1st ever concrete headstone
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Thanks for looking guys!!
 
That's a beautiful place. Well done. Were there any interesting inscriptions?
 
scribble, theres lot's of interesting inscriptions most in old English but some were in old Latin and i havent had a chance to sit and translate them yet.
 
Lovely place that is, I always intend to go down here, but never make it! Seems you may prompted me, thanks a lot.
 
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