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Chapel at East Finchley Cemetery

East Finchley Cemetery is a cemetery and crematorium in East Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet. The facilities are owned and managed by the City of Westminster.^[1]

The St Marylebone Burial Board purchased 47 acres (0.19 km²) of Newmarket Farm in 1854;^[1] and the cemetery, then known as St Marylebone Cemetery, was laid out by architects Barnet & Brick Ltd. the following year with an Anglican Grade II listed chapel.^[2] A principle feature are two Lebanon Cedar trees planted on the front lawn. The crematorium was opened in 1937.^[1]

Due to local government reorganisation, the cemetery was managed by the Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone – from 1900; and became the responsibility of the City of Westminster in 1965, when the cemetery became known by its current name. The cemetery contains about 22,000 internments; and remains open for burials.^[1]

The cemetery was awarded a Green Flag Award in 2007.^[1]

The nearest London Underground station is East Finchley, on the Northern Line.

Notable burials

Leopold Stokowski's grave at East Finchley Cemetery

• Sir Henry Bishop – Professor of Music at Oxford and operatic composer^[1]
• Leopold Stokowski – Conductor^[1]
• Sir Robert Harmsworth – Newspaper Publisher with a memorial by Edwin Lutyens^[1]
• Lord Northcliffe – Founder of the Daily Mail^[1]
• Sir Joseph Chamberlain – Son of Joseph Chamberlain and brother of Neville Chamberlain^[1]
• Sir George Hayter – Queen Victoria’s principal painter in ordinary^[1]
• Melanie Appleby - one half of pop duo Mel and Kim
• Algernon Borthwick 1st Baron Glenesk – Memorial chapel and Mausoleum^[1]
• Thomas Henry Huxley – Scientist^[1]
• Heath Robinson – Artist and cartoonist^[1]
• Marie Studholme - Actress^[3]
• George Walters - Sergeant in the 49th Foot who won the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Inkermann in 1854^[1]
• Thomas Stevens - Cyclist, the first one to circle the globe by bicycle^[1]

There are 75 Commonwealth burials of World War I in the cemetery. There are a further 79 burials of World War II. There is a Screen Wall memorial, behind the Cross of Sacrifice, recording the names of the 1939-1945 casualties who were cremated.^[4]

References

External links

• East Finchley Cemetery (City of Westminster)
• War Graves (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)

Coordinates: 51°35′31″N 0°11′02″W / 51.592°N 0.184°W / 51.592; -0.184