Gloucester Old Cemetery
Also known as Tredworth Road Cemetery
Gloucester, City of Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
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A burial board was formed for the city of Gloucester in 1856 and the Tredworth Road Cemetery opened in 1857 after which the dead of the city ceased to be interred in the old city churchyards formerly used for that purpose. The cemetery was originally of 13 acres to the north of Tredworth Road, but it was extended in 1875, 1909 and 1911 to include land to the south of the road by which time it covered 35 acres.
The two areas were known as the "old cemetery" and the "new cemetery". When Coney Hill Cemetery and Crematorium was opened in 1939, the whole of the Tredworth Road Cemetery became known colloquially as Gloucester Old Cemetery with the northern part known as "chapel side" and the southern side as the "B" ground.
Between 1976 and 1987, Gloucester City Council deliberately destroyed many attractive marble and granite memorials from the Chapel Side of the Old Cemetery, solely to allow better access for industrial sized lawnmowers. Details of the gravestones, including the epitaphs carefully chiselled many years previously, were at least recorded and the transcriptions are available to view in the National Archives and also via Gloucestershire Family History Society.
The cemetery chapel, located on the north side of the site, was designed in the Gothic style by Medland and Maberly for the Corporation of the City of Gloucester. It is symmetrical with parallel chapels for Anglicans and Nonconformists joined by a central carriageway and is a grade II listed building with Historic England.
A burial board was formed for the city of Gloucester in 1856 and the Tredworth Road Cemetery opened in 1857 after which the dead of the city ceased to be interred in the old city churchyards formerly used for that purpose. The cemetery was originally of 13 acres to the north of Tredworth Road, but it was extended in 1875, 1909 and 1911 to include land to the south of the road by which time it covered 35 acres.
The two areas were known as the "old cemetery" and the "new cemetery". When Coney Hill Cemetery and Crematorium was opened in 1939, the whole of the Tredworth Road Cemetery became known colloquially as Gloucester Old Cemetery with the northern part known as "chapel side" and the southern side as the "B" ground.
Between 1976 and 1987, Gloucester City Council deliberately destroyed many attractive marble and granite memorials from the Chapel Side of the Old Cemetery, solely to allow better access for industrial sized lawnmowers. Details of the gravestones, including the epitaphs carefully chiselled many years previously, were at least recorded and the transcriptions are available to view in the National Archives and also via Gloucestershire Family History Society.
The cemetery chapel, located on the north side of the site, was designed in the Gothic style by Medland and Maberly for the Corporation of the City of Gloucester. It is symmetrical with parallel chapels for Anglicans and Nonconformists joined by a central carriageway and is a grade II listed building with Historic England.
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- Added: 11 Oct 2010
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2373463
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