Laceby Cemetery is the burial ground for the village of Laceby in Lincolnshire. Owned and maintained by Laceby Parish Council, it is notable for the Grade II listed Haagensen Memorial and Vault in its grounds which was erected in 1897. [1] [2] [3]
Laceby Cemetery is the burial ground for the village of Laceby in Lincolnshire. Owned and maintained by Laceby Parish Council, it is notable for the Grade II listed Haagensen Memorial and Vault in its grounds which was erected in 1897. [1] [2] [3]
Laceby Cemetery opened in July 1875, presumably when the churchyard of the parish church, St Margaret's, became full. [4] The cemetery is made up of several acres of former farmland purchased by the Village Council. As each field filled with burials the council would buy more farmland for use as a cemetery. These fields were then divided into Sections, and, as of 2024, there are 12 Sections in the Laceby Cemetery together with two sections known as the Gardens of Remembrance for the burial of cremated remains. [5]
At the entrance to the cemetery can be found the Laceby War Memorial, a granite cross commemorating the men of the village who died in the two World Wars. [5]
Also in the cemetery can be found the graves of four military personnel, three from World War I and one from World War II, with their distinctive Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) headstones. These are:
The Haagensen Memorial with its subterranean vault was erected in 1897. The memorial has been Grade II listed since 2015. The statue, carved from a single block of white Carrara marble, depicts Janna Eleanora Andrea Haagensen, the wife of Peter Haagensen, the Consul for Sweden and Norway in Grimsby, and their four children. Janna Haagensen is shown being guided towards heaven by an angel while her four young children emerge from two tree stumps and reach up to her imploringly. Janna looks down at her children while her raised right arm has turned into a branch of a tree; her left is held by the angel. [1] [2] [3] The epitaph is carved in relief and reads:
IN MEMORY OF
CONSUL PETER HENRIK HAAGENSEN
BORN AT MOSS NORWAY 3RD AUGUST 1837
DIED AT BOURNMOUTH MAY 12TH 1919
AND OF HIS BELOVED WIFE
JANNA
BORN AT VINGER NORWAY 7TH SEPT 1845
DIED AT GRIMSBY 11TH DECR 1897
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
IN THE
HOPE OF RESURRECTION AND RECOGNITION IN ETERNITY. [1]
The citation for the Grade II listing states:
Architectural and Sculptural quality: the striking design and aesthetic quality of the statue achieves a high level of sculptural quality, which is echoed in the design and artistic quality of the marble-lined vault with its relief depictions of Peter and Janna Haagensen. [1]
It is thought that Peter Haagensen had originally intended to build a vault at Grimsby Cemetery, but this had been refused, so instead he built his marble-lined family vault at nearby Laceby Cemetery. On the death and internment in the vault of his wife Janna Haagensen in 1897 he had the marble memorial statue erected above it. Peter Haagensen joined his wife on his own death in 1919 after a service held in Norwegian. The memorial's original inscription has been altered at some time, as old picture postcards reveal that the inscription had included the names of their four children: Henry (1875–1943), Clara Lina Andrea (1876–1963), the artist Frederick Hans (1878–1943), and Margit Maud Haagensen (1882–1970). This has been removed and the place of Peter's death added in its place. [1]
Such was the fame of the memorial that during the first half of the 20th century it regularly received numerous visitors arriving by coach. The numbers of visitors were sufficient to support the nearby Laceby Tearooms and the memorial appeared on numerous picture postcards and was reproduced in glazed Goss pottery replicas. [1]
The marble lined vault with its segmented arched roof is accessed by steps under twelve cast-iron hinged and padlocked flaps. Its plain mosaic floor has a coloured border of mosaic flowers. The vault's northern wall has a carved portrait in relief of Peter Haagensen set in a dark grey oval marble frame, while the southern wall has a corresponding portrait of Janna Haagensen. In the eastern wall can be found six tombs under segmental marble arches. The central pair of tombs are to Peter and Janna Haagensen and are at ground level and are separated by a carved decorated panel in the classical style from the floor to the ceiling. [1]
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