Brompton Cemetery's Heritage

One of the Magnificent Seven Victorian cemeteries created in a ring around London, Brompton continues as a working cemetery and is of great historical importance.

In 1839, the architect Benjamin Baud was appointed to create one of the finest cemetery designs of the early Victorian period. Working with famous plant hunters, horticulturalists and landscape consultants, he transformed the unassuming site into a Garden Cemetery that would be “as much for the enjoyment of the living as the repose of the dead”.

Flanked by 35,000 gravestones, magnificent stone arcades and cobwebbed catacombs, the Grade II* Listed Chapel is the centrepiece of the Cemetery. Its beautiful dome is currently cracked and peeling and work is needed to the acoustics. All this and much more will be addressed by the Conservation Project.

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