Gardens of Peace - The OTHER Garden Cemeteries
Mon, 09 Jan
|Virtual event
Highgate Kensal Green, ad nauseaum. What of the other great Victorian cemeteries that opened before the so-called Magnificent Seven?


Time & Location
09 Jan 2023, 18:30 GMT – 10 Jan 2023, 20:00 GMT
Virtual event
About the event
Abney Park is the best example of a garden cemetery in the U.K followed closely by its sisters such as Brompton and West Norwood. But these 'Magnificent Seven' cemeteries were not the first to open using garden landscapes as an influence: examples in Liverpool and Glasgow opened beforehand.
So what are these necropoli and why did they open before the London ones did? What influences played a part in creating these bold new spaces and how were they received compared to the deplorable churchyards of the time? Sheldon will explain how classical design inspired a forty-year-old architect (who'd exhibited at the Royal Academy) in Liverpool's premier valhalla and how park design helped change attitudes to spaces of remembrance, such as that of London Road Cemetery in Coventry.