© John Clarke 2014-
John Clarke
Historian of Brookwood Cemetery
List of Churches and Parishes Known to Have Used Brookwood Cemetery
This list is based on my ongoing research into Brookwood Cemetery. It contains the names of 35 churches and parishes that are known to have used Brookwood Cemetery for burials. The list is not necessarily exhaustive, but I believe it to be fairly comprehensive.
The London Necropolis Company encouraged churches to use its cemetery so that those who had been united in life would not be separated in death.
Links with London parishes developed through contracts with the Poor Law Guardians for the burial of the poor usually, but not exclusively, for those who died in workhouses or infirmaries.
Some London parishes arranged to have ground set aside for their dead at Brookwood, but most did not do so.
Other links developed due tot he removal and reburial of human remains from churchyards and crypts to Brookwood Cemetery. There were many reasons for these removals: the insanitary state of the crypt or churchyard, the need to use the space in the crypt for other purposes, or metropolitan improvements such as new railway or road construction.
There is a similar page for institutions and organisations known to have used Brookwood Cemetery.
The list will be updated and amended as necessary. If you are aware of any errors or omissions, then please feel free to contact me.
Copyright © 2012, 2020 by John M. Clarke. All Rights Reserved
Parish |
Known Dates |
All Hallows the Great & Less (church largely demolished 1893- |
Reburial of human remains |
Bermondsey |
December 1854 onward |
Reburial of human remains from the chapel (1898) |
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Chiswick |
January 1855 onward |
Hanover Chapel (demolished 1896- |
Reburial of human remains |
Holy Trinity, Kingsway (church demolished in 1909 and rebuilt) |
Reburial of human remains (1909) |
1863 - |
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April 1855 onward |
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St Antholin, Budge Row (demolished 1874- |
Reburial of human remains |
Reburial of human remains |
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Reburial of human remains (1900) |
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Reburial of human remains from the crypt (1899) |
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November 1854 onward |
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St George’s, Botolph Lane (demolished 1904) |
Reburial of human remains from the crypt (1902) |
(Link to the list of names recorded by the church) |
Reburial of human remains from the crypt (1960) |
November 1854 onward |
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October 1858 onward |
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Reburial of human remains from the crypt (1894) |
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April 1855 - |
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November 1854 onward |
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Reburial of human remains |
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1865 onwards |
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Reburial of human remains from the crypt (1893- |
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March 1858 onward |
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Reburial of human remains from the crypt (1983) |
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Reburial of human remains from the burial ground (1987) |
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St Michael, Wood Street (demolished 1896- |
Reburial of human remains |
St Mildred, Bread Street (destroyed in the blitz) |
Reburial of human remains from the crypt (1898) |
February 1855 - |
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St Olave, Tooley Street (demolished 1926- |
Reburial of human remains |
February 1855 - |
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Reburial of human remains (1894) |
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St Saviour’s, Southwark (now Southwark Cathedral) |
November 1854 onward |
c1905 - |
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St Swithin’s, London Stone (church destroyed in the blitz) |
Reburial of human remains |
Swedish Church in London |
1857 - |