Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge

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Outline marking the demolished George Gilbert Scott's mortuary chapel in Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge in August 2021. Cmglee Cambridge Mill Road Cemetery chapel outline.jpg
Outline marking the demolished George Gilbert Scott's mortuary chapel in Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge in August 2021.

Mill Road Cemetery is a cemetery off Mill Road in the Petersfield area of Cambridge, England. Since 2001 the cemetery has been protected as a Grade II Listed site, [1] and several of the tombs are also listed as of special architectural and historical interest. [2]

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The cemetery was established in 1848 on a site formerly occupied by a cricket ground, as a collection of burial grounds for 13 city parishes (now 10 through amalgamation) whose churchyards had become full. A chapel built by George Gilbert Scott was demolished in 1954. An outline of the chapel in carved stone was completed in 2017 as a record and memorial, made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. [3] All the plots are now closed for burials, and the cemetery as a whole is by law maintained by the City Council and managed on behalf of the parishes by the Parochial Burial Grounds Management Committee.

Mill Road Cemetery in winter 2009. December Snow 2009 - Mill Road Cemetery - geograph.org.uk - 1624202.jpg
Mill Road Cemetery in winter 2009.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintain the graves of 33 Commonwealth service personnel from World War I and 4 from World War II. [4]

The cemetery can be accessed from Mill Road, from Norfolk Street, or through the industrial estate on Gwydir Street.

In February 2014 an art work entitled Bird Stones by Gordon Young was installed in the cemetery. Its one wooden and six stone columns celebrate the bird species found in the cemetery and their birdsong. [5]

The cemetery is also listed as a City Wildlife Site, containing many indicator plant species for undisturbed neutral/calcareous grassland amongst the 110+ species identified. At least 35 species of bird, 23 species of butterflies and several species of mammal have also been reported, including the European dormouse and weasel.

Burials

Grade II-listed tomb of James Rattee and his mother in Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge Cmglee Cambridge Tomb Of James Rattee At Mill Road Cemetery.jpg
Grade II-listed tomb of James Rattee and his mother in Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge

Biographies of some of those people interred in the cemetery and images of their graves or monuments can be found on the cemetery website. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1001561)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  2. ↑ Welcome to Mill Road Cemetery Archived 2011-01-24 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ The Lodge and Chapel
  4. ↑ CWGC Cemetery report.
  5. ↑ "Launch of new public art project in Mill Road Cemetery". Cambridge City Council. 19 February 2014. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  6. ↑ Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge
  7. 1 2 Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  9. ↑ Guillermo P. Curbera, Mathematicians of the world, unite!: the International Congress of Mathematicians, A K Peters Ltd, 2009, p. 50
  10. ↑ 'George Mursell Garrett', The Musical Times , Vol. 38, No. 651 (May 1, 1897), pp. 310–311
  11. ↑ The Classical Review , 1889, p. 227
  12. ↑ Alastair Wood, 'Fifty-Eight Years of Friendship: Kelvin and Stokes', in Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney, Andrew Whitaker, eds., Kelvin: life, labours and legacy, p. 85
  13. ↑ Jonathan Smith, Christopher Stray, eds., Teaching and learning in nineteenth-century Cambridge, p. 186

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