Churches Using 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.

Parish	Known Dates
All Hallows the Great & Less (church largely demolished 1893-96)	Reburial of human remains
Bermondsey	December 1854 onward
The Charterhouse	Reburial of human remains from the chapel (1898)
Chiswick	January 1855 onward
Hanover Chapel (demolished 1896-97)	Reburial of human remains
Holy Trinity, Kingsway (church demolished in 1909 and rebuilt)	Reburial of human remains (1909)
St Alban the Martyr, Holborn	1863 - present
St Anne’s, Soho	April 1855 onward
St Antholin, Budge Row (demolished 1874-75)	Reburial of human remains
St Botolph Without, Aldersgate	Reburial of human remains
St Clement Danes	Reburial of human remains (1900)
St George the Martyr, Southwark	Reburial of human remains from the crypt (1899)
St George’s, Bloomsbury	November 1854 onward
St George’s, Botolph Lane (demolished 1904)	Reburial of human remains from the crypt (1902)
St George's in the East (Link to the list of names recorded by the church)	Reburial of human remains from the crypt (1960)
St Giles’-in-the-Fields	November 1854 onward
St James’s, Westminster	October 1858 onward
St John, Clerkenwell	Reburial of human remains from the crypt (1894)
St John, Westminster	April 1855 - c1922
St Luke, Chelsea	November 1854 onward
St Magnus the Martyr	Reburial of human remains
St Martin’s-in-the-Fields	1865 onwards
St Martin’s Ludgate Hill	Reburial of human remains from the crypt (1893-94)
St Mary Newington	March 1858 onward
St Marylebone	Reburial of human remains from the crypt (1983)
St Michael’s, Fish Street Hill	Reburial of human remains from the burial ground (1987)
St Michael, Wood Street (demolished 1896-97)	Reburial of human remains
St Mildred, Bread Street (destroyed in the blitz)	Reburial of human remains from the crypt (1898)
St Nicholas, Deptford	February 1855 - c1900
St Olave, Tooley Street (demolished 1926-28)	Reburial of human remains
St Paul’s, Deptford	February 1855 - c1900
St Peter’s Walworth	Reburial of human remains (1894)
St Saviour’s, Southwark (now Southwark Cathedral)	November 1854 onward
St Stephen’s, Kensington	c1905 - present
St Swithin’s, London Stone (church destroyed in the blitz)	Reburial of human remains
Swedish Church in London	1857 - present