St. John the Evangelist Churchyard in Knotty Ash, Merseyside

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Coordinates: 53.41608, -2.89137
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St John the Evangelist Cemetery, Knotty Ash. The Anglican church was built between 26 Jun 1834 and 18 Feb 1836, when it was consecrated. It was designed in the Gothic style by Williams and Edwards and built by Richard Barker and Paul Barker of Huyton, in red ashlar sandstone. It is located in the Knotty Ash area of Liverpool, located on Thomas Lane, L14 5NR. It has stained glass windows, a clock tower, buttresses, an organ and a cemetery. The side gallery was added in 1890.

There is a War Memorial located outside of the Lady Chapel entrance.

There are approximately 4,300 bodies in the graveyard and about 1,300 of them are children ten and under. The church has a book containing details of inscriptions and locations of all graves in the Church yard.

The Church says that "Shortly after 1885 the portion of the old churchyard that was originally set aside for single interments was completely filled. As the rules of burial in that portion did NOT ALLOW GRAVESTONES, the incumbent Vicar - Canon Frank Powell (Vicar 1885 - 1939) - placed a large memorial Celtic cross in the ground, for those laid to rest between 1836 and 1890."

The cemetery also includes some burials transferred from the Liverpool Parish Church cemetery (Our Lady and St Nicholas), due to a redirected road that went through it.