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Sidcup Cemetery

Introduction

The cemetery has no chapel but there is an interesting lodge decorated with burnt brick fragments. The planting is not profuse but includes Cedars and Araucaria as well as yew, and a hawthorn walk.

Sidcup Cemetery opened in 1912, designed around a straight axial drive to a turning circle. The cemetery has no chapel but there is an interesting lodge decorated with burnt brick fragments. The planting is not profuse but includes Cedars and Araucaria as well as yew, and a hawthorn walk. The turning circle has three paths leading off asymmetrically, and across the north-east angle of the site there is a line of pollard limes. There are gardens of remembrance, and a new section of the cemetery was opened in Spring 2003.

Sources consulted:

C Webb revised ed. of P Wolfston 'Greater London Cemeteries and Crematoria', Society of Genealogists, 1994

For more information see http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=BEX052

Visitor Access, Directions & Contacts

Website

http://www.bexley.gov.uk

Access contact details

9am - 6pm (summer: April-September); 9am-4pm (winter: October-March)

Directions

Rail: Albany Park c.100m to east. Bus: 269, B14*.

Owners

LB Bexley

Other Websites

History

Period

  • 20th Century (1901 to 2000)
  • Early 20th Century (1901 to 1932)
Key Information

Type

Funerary Site

Purpose

Sacred / Ritual / Funerary

Principal Building

Religious Ritual And Funerary

Period

20th Century (1901 to 2000)

Survival

Extant

Open to the public

Yes

References

Contributors

  • London Parks and Gardens Trust