Nunhead cemetery

[skullcandy]

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

plant on the rear corner wall

Chapel window

Chapel spire

Chapel abbey/font

Holding hands forever

Shrubbery

Script

Lost but not forgotten

Overhang

Cherished forever

Take a seat

the 1st ever concrete headstone

Thanks for looking guys!!

 

[BahrainPete]

Really nice, I like that a lot. Thanks for posting.

 

[UE-OMJ]

Not a bad first report

 

[abel101]

nice shots, good first report

 

[night crawler]

I love cemetery's and that one has just gone on my to do list. Great first report.

 

[shane.c]

Good shots.......

 

[Judderman62]

like this and very much my kind of place.

thanks for posting it up

 

[flyboys90]

I liked that,great photos.

 

[maxmix]

Love all the Victorian Cemeteries, great report

 

[skullcandy]

Thanks guys, its a very quiet and serene place to visit, i love really old cemeteries and my next report will be up in the next few days!

 

[scribble]

That's a beautiful place. Well done. Were there any interesting inscriptions?

 

[skullcandy]

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.

 

[explorer101]

nice place, great first report

L x

 

[Judderman62]

Liking this lots

 

[Wendy Lou]

Beautiful place and pictures!

 

[pumice]

Lovely place that is, I always intend to go down here, but never make it! Seems you may prompted me, thanks a lot.