Recommend a graveyard/grave

[Ian H]

Why?
And what's with the two Moravian places near there?

Apparently it's the only remaining place where you still have to be of Moravian descent to live there.

Fullneck Cemetary

• Ian H
• 26 Nov 2017

Fullneck grave

• Ian H
• 26 Nov 2017

 

[classic33]

Pere Lachaise in Paris. Many famous people buried there. Never been myself though.

You famous?

 

[summerdays]

Apparently it's the only remaining place where you still have to be of Moravian descent to live there.

Fullneck Cemetary

• Ian H
• 26 Nov 2017

Fullneck grave

• Ian H
• 26 Nov 2017

The Moravians buried the females on one side of the graveyard and the males on the other, at least in one grave yard I've been in.

 

[Ian H]

The Moravians buried the females on one side of the graveyard and the males on the other, at least in one grave yard I've been in.

All the stones are flat in the grass, the older ones disappearing gradually.

 

[gavroche]

You famous?

I have no wish to be famous.

 

[summerdays]

All the stones are flat in the grass, the older ones disappearing gradually.

They were laid flat because they were all equal, none of them ranked above the others in death. I can't find my photos of the graveyard but here is one from online. The graveyard was subsequently used by others hence some upright headstone too.

 

[classic33]

Yes indeed - I think you are correct. Short of time so quick Google lead me astray.....

 

[Ian H]

They were laid flat because they were all equal, none of them ranked above the others in death. I can't find my photos of the graveyard but here is one from online. The graveyard was subsequently used by others hence some upright headstone too.

There weren't any upright graves in the Fullneck one. Just a few stones, which had obviously been removed, against the walls at the top.

 

[Bollo]

The town of Alresford a couple of miles outside Winchester is .... errr .... more famous for the production of watercress and its restored steam trains, but the church between the high street and the station has a graveyard where some French officers of the Napoleonic wars are buried. Although strictly prisoners of war, they were billeted in 'parole towns' as a more desirable alternative to a spell in the prison hulks moored off Portsmouth.

They're not large, but still nicely maintained. Linky with the story here.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Hawksmoor mausoleum at Castle Howard

 

[Grant Fondo]

Another one of Brion cemetery by Carlo Scarpa

 

[Ian H]

Kensal green is massive. Used to wander round there in my moody black and white photography days.

That and Highgate contained the earliest of the catacombs built for the wealthy to house their dead. These cemeteries were built when the stink of the corpses in church crypts became unbearable. The best coffins were double-lined with lead to prevent 'leakage'. You can, I think, still find organised tours.

 

[And]

Go to Saint Michael’s in Hathersage to see Little John's grave:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/little-johns-grave

Not a graveyard, but buried by the roadside:
http://www.praxxis.co.uk/brackenfield/mathersgrave.htm

JFK's sister is buried at Endsor, Chatsworth:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3561246
He visited in 1963.....

 

[Tim Hall]

Go to Saint Michael’s in Hathersage to see Little John's grave:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/little-johns-grave
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What that photo doesn't show is the collecting box for donations for upkeep of the churchyard:

I think it started life as something else.

 

[summerdays]

I stopped off at a graveyard on the way to work today, to take a photo of some graves I'd seen previously. This is the wiki link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scipio_Africanus_(slave)

In the parish church at Henbury.