22-886: New Southgate Cemetery (also known as Brunswick Park Cemetery ) is a 22-hectare cemetery in Brunswick Park in the London Borough of Barnet . It was established by the Colney Hatch Company in the 1850s and became the Great Northern London Cemetery , with a railway service running from near Kings Cross station to a dedicated station at the cemetery, similar to the service of the London Necropolis Company to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey. The railway service to Great Northern London Cemetery soon closed, but
44-526: A Screen Wall memorial for those of World War I and a Kerb Wall memorial for those of World War II. The monument to the German internees is a grade II listed structure. 51°37′26″N 0°08′39″W / 51.6240°N 0.1441°W / 51.6240; -0.1441 Brunswick Park Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
66-426: A coffin, and plus a return fare of 1s 6d for each mourner, plus another fee for burial, starting at 10s or 11s. The fees for burial at Brookwood Cemetery started at over £1. A siding was built next to the main line north of King's Cross station with a separate station building (Great Northern Cemetery Station) off Maiden Lane (now York Way ). The station included a wedge-shaped spire, and gothic arches, built above
88-559: A few years before the cemetery. The Great Northern London Cemetery Company was formed as a joint venture between the Great Northern Railway Company and the Colney Hatch Company under a local act of Parliament , the Great Northern London Cemetery Act 1855 ( 18 & 19 Vict. c. clix). with a view to providing cheap and convenient burial services to the residents of central London. A similar service
110-611: A group of members of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church split from those in the City of London and were allowed to establish a separate chapel in the City of Westminster. A burial ground was consecrated in 1721. The original chapel was replaced with a larger one in 1768. A total of 235 burials took place at the chapel between 1722 and 1853. It was also known as the German Church of St Mary-le-Savoy because of its strong links to
132-425: A retaining wall beside the railway line in a cutting below. It included a mortuary – intended to avoid the unhygienic storage of cadavers at the deceased's family home – and facilities for mourners, with a lift to carry coffins down to the tracks. Rail services began in about 1861 and ran twice a week to Southgate & Colney Hatch (now New Southgate ) station; north of the station, a single railway track ran to
154-492: A rough "M" shape which it has been speculated may stand for Marienkirche or Mary. Supplemental to the original agreement, Queen Victoria paid an additional £250 (equivalent to £29,700 in 2023) to have the graves maintained in perpetuity. Despite this, by 1993 the area was greatly overgrown and when a member of the Anglo-German Family History Society attempted to locate the site, she was told that there
176-429: A terminus to the west of East Barnet Lane (later renamed Brunswick Park Road ), beside the cemetery, where there were waiting rooms and chapels. The cemetery was laid out by Alexander Spurr in a concentric plan around a Gothic chapel with a 150 feet (46 m) high spire. Rail services ceased at some point after 1873, and the station with its chapel were demolished after 1912. A Standard Telephones and Cables factory
198-696: The Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith , died on a visit to London in 1957 and, in accordance with the faith, was buried near the place of his death at New Southgate Cemetery. Dorothy Lawrence (1896–1964), a woman who surreptitiously served as a male soldier on the Western Front in World War I and was institutionalised at the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum where she died in 1964, was buried in a pauper's grave in
220-587: The Hanoverian court. The Hanoverian kings George I to III all granted the chapel royal warrants, which were renewed by Queen Victoria, and many Hanoverian courtiers worshipped either at the Savoy Chapel or the Marienkirche and were buried in its graveyard. The Savoy Precinct was demolished in 1875 when a new approach was created from Strand to the recently created Victoria Embankment. In December 1875, an agreement
242-471: The cemetery has remained open. After the closure of burial grounds in central London in the 1850s, there was a movement to establish new cemeteries further from the centre of the city. The Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847 allowed for the creation of commercial cemeteries, expanded upon by the Burial Act 1852 . The Colney Hatch Company acquired land for a cemetery near Colney Hatch (now known as New Southgate ;
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#1732869835025264-443: The cemetery, where the site of her plot is no longer clear. Other interments include statesman Richard Bethell (1800–1873), physician Alfred Baring Garrod (1819–1907), songwriter Fred W. Leigh (1871–1924) and criminal Tony Lambrianou (1942–2004). The cemetery was acquired by New Southgate Cemetery and Crematorium Company in 1993. It now includes sections for Roman Catholic , Greek Orthodox , and Caribbean burials. Parts of
286-569: The details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 829428069 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:43:55 GMT Savoy Vaults The Savoy Vaults , or Queen Victoria Vaults , is an area of graves at New Southgate Cemetery in north London. The vaults contain the remains of those buried at the St Marienkirche Lutheran Chapel in Savoy Precinct , which
308-622: The eastern boundary. In later years a crematorium was also opened here. The cemetery contains war graves of 109 Commonwealth service personnel, two Belgian soldiers, and 51 German prisoners who were buried from the Alexandra Palace Internment Camp in World War I , besides 86 Commonwealth service war graves from World War II . A Cross of Sacrifice stands in front of the cemetery chapel. Those Commonwealth service personnel whose graves could not be marked by headstones are listed on
330-603: The land that once formed part of the cemetery grounds are now a modern housing estate. Since the 1950s, New Southgate Cemetery has become the burial place for the North London Greek Cypriot community. The Greek Orthodox area was developed in 1998 and named after the Reverend Kyriacou Petrou, a local priest, who is also buried in this section. The cemetery is a Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation , Grade II. The Pymmes Brook Trail runs along
352-539: The name was later changed to avoid association with the nearby Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum ). Originally intended to cover 200 acres (80 ha), the cemetery eventually reached covered 150 acres (60 ha). The cemetery is located about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Colney Hatch Station, now New Southgate railway station , which is about 7 miles (11 km) on the Great Northern Railway main line north of King's Cross station , which had opened in 1852, only
374-534: Was built on the former location of the station in 1922; the site now forms part of North London Business Park. Although the rail service ceased, the cemetery remained open for burials. It was later renamed New Southgate Cemetery. In 1876, a plot was reserved for the exclusive use of Queen Victoria for the reinterment of the remains from the St Marienkirche Lutheran Chapel in Savoy Precinct which
396-699: Was demolished in 1875 to improve access to the newly created Victoria Embankment on the northern edge of the River Thames . The chapel and many of the burials had links to the Hanoverians in England. The St Marienkirche (St Mary's) Lutheran Chapel stood in the Savoy Precinct, along with the Savoy Chapel , in Savoy Street , south of Strand . It was founded in 1694 with the approval of the protestant William III , after
418-512: Was demolished in 1875 to improve access to the newly created Victoria Embankment on the edges of the River Thames. The area is known as the Savoy Vaults or Queen Victoria Vaults. Later burials include the cemetery's architect and superintendent Alexander Spurr (died 1873) and Ross McWhirter (1925–1975). Perhaps the most famous person buried at the cemetery is Shoghi Effendi (1897–1957),
440-838: Was entered into between the Great North London Cemetery Company and the Duchy of Lancaster , on behalf of Queen Victoria , whereby the Queen was granted an exclusive right of burial in an area of consecrated ground at New Southgate Cemetery measuring 75 feet by 54 feet. The plot contains 32 vaults, all with flat stone roofs, with family members being interred together. Each is numbered in Roman numerals with one un-numbered vault. The dates of death range from 1722 to 1854 and include 236 individuals of whom 11 were aged under one year and 26 under five. Among them are: The vaults are laid out in
462-415: Was established in 1854 by the London Necropolis Company , running from London Necropolis railway station near Waterloo station to Brookwood Cemetery near Woking, Surrey , but the 23-mile (37 km) journey took around 45 minutes compared to 15 minutes between Kings Cross and Colney Hatch. The Great Northern London Cemetery Company aimed at the lower end of the market, charging 6 shillings to carry
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#1732869835025484-482: Was nothing to see. The vaults were eventually uncovered, and the inscriptions recorded, by two members of that society. Around 2002, the Friern Barnet & District Local History Society also began to take an interest in the vaults and conducted their own research, including contacting the royal archives at Windsor who suggested the society contact the Anglo-German Family History Society. In 2006, an information board
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