APPENDIX. (continued 3)
Reading edition
Undescribed 38 24 62 9 56 49 6 }
Paupers 97 19 116 17 57 46 5 }
Totals and 712 740 1,452 346
Averages 50 25 12 14
263 No. of Births 1,730 Age of Living 26·11 Births 1 in 33
St. James, Clerkenwell. Population 56,709. Gentry 52 15 67 8 60 46 2 }
Tradesmen 99 109 208 50 49 23 13 16 }
Artisans, &c. 324 533 857 183 50 19 12 20 } 1 in 43 474
Undescribed 82 17 99 6 59 44 3 }
Paupers 76 14 90 2 60 50 2 }
Totals and 633 688 1,321 249
Averages 53 25 9 14
No. of Births 1,771 Age of Living 25·11 Births 1 in 32
St. George in the East. Population 41,351. Gentry 18 3 21 63 54 }
Tradesmen 66 72 138 29 49 23 13 16 }
Artisans, &c. 313 481 794 158 46 18 16 12 } 1 in 36 408[59]
Undescribed 62 14 76 3 60 46 2 }
Paupers 93 14 107 14 61 52 1 }
Totals and 552 584 1,136 204
Averages 51 25 11 14
No. of Births 1,404 Age of Living 26·6 Births 1 in 29
St. Giles and St. George. Population 54,250. Gentry 66 32 98 15 60 40 2 }
Tradesmen 119 114 233 44 52 26 10 13 }
Artisans, &c. 280 584 864 221 51 17 11 22 } 1 in 36 528[60]
Undescribed 42 20 62 9 53 35 9 4 }
Paupers 208 34 242 53 54 46 8 }
Totals and 715 784 1,499 342
Averages 53 25 9 14
264 No. of Births 1,622 Age of Living 27·9 Births 1 in 33
Strand. Population 43,894. Gentry 47 21 68 8 59 40 3 }
Tradesmen 129 132 261 58 51 25 11 14 }
Artisans, &c. 299 382 681 178 48 21 14 18 } 1 in 41 413[61]
Undescribed 26 19 45 4 55 28 7 11 }
Paupers 15 5 20 65 49
Totals and 516 559 1075 248
Averages 51 24 11 15
No. of Births 957 Age of Living 27·3 Births 1 in 46
Lambeth. Population 115,883. Gentry 141 64 205 19 58 37 4 2 }
Tradesmen 340 452 792 174 50 21 12 18 }
Artisans, &c. 452 704 1,156 245 49 19 13 20 } 1 in 46 979[62]
Undescribed 113 68 181 27 59 35 3 4 }
Paupers 173 38 211 37 56 44 6 }
Totals and 1,219 1,326 2,545 502
Averages 52 24 10 15
No. of Births 3,782 Age of Living 26.2 Births 1 in 31
St. George, Southwark. Population 46,622. Gentry 32 9 41 5 61 45 1 }
Tradesmen 66 53 119 18 54 30 8 9 }
Artisans, &c. 371 591 962 248 53 20 9 19 } 1 in 39 492[63]
Undescribed 35 15 50 10 50 30 12 9 }
Paupers 22 6 28 2 58 45 4 }
Totals and 526 674 1,200 283
Averages 53 23 9 16
265 No. of Births 1,574 Age of Living 26·5 Births 1 in 30
St. Luke. Population 49,982. Gentry 21 6 27 3 56 38 6 1 }
Tradesmen 62 52 114 17 49 25 13 14 } 1 in 40 538
Artisans, &c. 391 569 960 306 49 20 13 19 }
Undescribed 85 49 134 17 58 35 4 4 }
Paupers }
Totals and 559 676 1,235 343
Averages 50 22 12 17
No. of Births 2,271 Age of Living 25·11 Births 1 in 22
Bermondsey. Population 34,847. Gentry 3 5 8 51 20 11 19 }
Tradesmen 66 59 125 16 48 25 14 14 }
Artisans, &c. 202 373 575 144 51 18 11 21 } 1 in 42 364[64]
Undescribed 24 26 50 6 45 21 17 18 }
Paupers 62 14 76 15 57 47 5 }
Totals and 357 477 834 181
Averages 51 22 11 17
No. of Births 1,151 Age of Living 24·7 Births 1 in 30
Bethnal Green. Population 74,087. Gentry 39 11 50 4 61 46 1 }
Tradesmen 110 136 246 56 53 24 9 15 }
Artisans, &c. 468 874 1,342 369 51 18 11 21 } 1 in 41 791[65]
Undescribed 69 19 88 6 57 44 5 }
Paupers 76 19 93 19 65 49 }
Totals and 762 1,059 1,821 454
Averages 54 22 8 17
266 No. of Births 2,674 Age of Living 25·2 Births 1 in 28
St. Savior´s. Population 32,980 Gentry 9 1 10 1 52 47 10 }
Tradesmen 45 43 88 17 52 26 10 13 }
Artisans, &c. 250 248 498 93 45 22 17 17 } 1 in 36 422
Undescribed 89 198 287 65 51 15 11 24 }
Paupers 23 9 32 4 59 40 3 }
Totals and 416 499 915 180
Averages 48 21 14 18
No. of Births 1,143 Age of Living 27·3 Births 1 in 29
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No. 12. EXAMPLES OF ORDINARY UNDERTAKERS’ BILLS IN THE METROPOLIS.
No. 1. £. s. d.
Elm coffin, lined, ruffled, mattrass, sheet, and pillow 3 11 0
Leaden coffin, plate of inscription, 5 men with ditto 6 15 0
Outside case, brass engraved plate, 5 men with ditto, & making-up 9 9 6
Pall 7s. 6d., 2 porters, scarfs, staves, covers, bands, & gloves, 38s. 2 5 6
Four gentlemen’s crape scarfs, bands, and gloves 6 12 0
Seventeen silk ditto ditto 41 5 0
Hearse, 4 horses, feathers and velvets for ditto 5 16 0
Five coaches, pairs, ditto for ditto 9 15 0
Six coach cloaks, bands, and gloves, 60s., truncheons & wands 6s. 3 6 0
Eighteen pages and bearers, silk bands, and gloves 11 14 0
Attending and assistance, 63s.; scarf, band, and gloves for minister, 5s. 5 18 0
Hatband and gloves for clerk and sexton, 30s.; grave-digger, &c. 3s. 6d. 1 13 6
Paid vault dues 4l. 12s. 6d.; letters 20s.; fetching company 4s. 6d. 5 17 0
Two crape bands and gloves for servants 20s.; 8 silk do. do. 5s. 6 0 0
Thirty-four men’s allowance 28s. 1 8 0
£ 121 5 0
No. 2.
Elm shell, lined, ruffled, mattrass, sheet, and pillow 3 8 0
Leaden coffin, plate of inscription, and 5 men with do., & making up 6 3 0
Outside case, engraved plate, 5 men with ditto 8 13 0
Pall 7s.; 2 porters’ scarfs, staves, bands, and gloves 2 7 0
Lid of feathers 21s.; 3 men with do., and bands and gloves 45s. 3 6 0
Hearse, 4 horses 2l. 14s.; feathers and velvets for ditto, 2l. 6s. 5 0 0
Two coaches, pairs 2l. 14s.; ditto ditto 1l. 2s. 3 16 0
Three coachmen’s cloaks, bands, and gloves 1 11 6
Ten pages and bearers 40s.; bands and gloves for ditto. 5l.; truncheons and wands 4s. 7 4 0
Eight gentlemen’s cloaks 8s.; 4 crape bands, &c., 40s.; 6 silk ditto 6l. 6s. 8 14 0
Two bands and gloves for clerk and sexton 30s.; 2 ditto for private servants 17s. 2 7 0
Attending 21s.; 18 men’s allowances 18s.; letters of invitation 4s. 2 4 0
Paid dues 7l. 14s. 6d.; pew-opener, &c. 2s.; fetching company 2s. 7 18 6
£ 62 11 0
No. 3.
Covered coffin, lined, ruffled, plate of inscription, mattrass, sheet and pillow 4 19 0
Pall 7s. 6d.; 2 porters, gowns, staves, and for bands & gloves 30s. 1 19 6
Four gentlemen’s cloaks, crape bands and gloves 1l. 18s.; attending ceremony 20s. 2 18 0
Hearse and coach, pairs 3l. 12s.; velvets for ditto 21s.; 2 cloaks and bands 11s. 5 4 0
Six pages, bands, gloves, truncheons, wands, 62s.; fetching company 9s. 3 11 0
Paid 10 men’s allowance 25s.; stone 10s.; turnpike, gravedigger 4s. 1 19 0
£ 20 10 6
No. 4.
268Smooth elm, polished nails, inscription, lined, mattrass, sheet, and pillow 4 10 0
Pall 7s.; 4 crape bands; 6 ladies’ hoods and gloves 2 17 0
Attending 5s.; dues at church 18s.; 5 men’s allowance 6s. 6d. 1 9 6
£ 8 16 6
To the Executor of —— ——, Esq.
Dr to —— ——.
For the Funeral of —— ——, Esq., died 19th February, aged 80, N. 5 and 84 B., Cemetery, All Souls.
To a 6 ft. × 22 elm coffin, lined and ruffed with fine cotton 2 10 0
Wool bed 0 10 6
Fine sheet and pillow 0 18 0
Lead coffin, solder, and workmanship 6 18 0
Lead plate of inscription 0 5 0
Inch and a half oak coffin, made to receive the above, covered with fine black cloth, 3 rows of brass nails, 4 pair of large handles, star and serpent, and finished with rays 15 15 0
Brass plate of inscription 2 8 0
To the use of the best velvet pall 0 10 6
Three crape hatbands 0 12 0
Three crape scarfs 3 0 0
Silk scarf, hatbands, and gloves, the Rev. Mr. Lynarn 2 6 0
Seven silk scarfs 10 10 O
Seven silk hatbands 4 7 6
Five silk scarfs, hatbands, and gloves, Rev. Mr. Rue, Mr. Hawes Smith, Rule Field 11 10 O
Eleven pair of kid gloves 1 18 6
Two porters, with silk dressings 0 16 0
Two hatbands and gloves for ditto 0 15 0
The plume of ostrich feathers 1 1 0
Man carrying ditto 0 6 6
Silk hatbands and gloves for ditto 0 7 6
Hearse and four 3 10 0
Feathers and velvets for ditto 2 18 0
Three mourning coaches and four 10 10 0
Feathers and velvets for ditto 2 14 0
Four coachman’s cloaks 0 4 0
Silk hatbands and gloves for ditto 1 10 0
Eight hearse pages, with truncheons 1 16 0
Silk hatbands and gloves for ditto 3 0 0
Six coach pages, with wands 1 7 0
Silk hatbands and gloves for ditto 2 5 0
Silk hatband and gloves for clerk at the ground 0 12 6
Four hatbands and gloves for servants of the two carriages 2 10 0
One hatband and gloves for terrace beadle 0 10 6
One hatband and gloves for man servant 0 7 6
Four pair of habit gloves 0 12 0
Attending the funeral 1 1 0
Silk hatband and gloves 0 16 0
Twenty-six men’s expenses as customary 1 19 0
Turnpikes 0 6 6
Paid dues at the cemetery 22 7 6
Silk scarf, hatband, and gloves (Mr. Owen) 2 6 0
Paid for the bell 0 6 6
£ 130 16 0
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The Funeral Expenses of Mary Maria ——,
Performed by ——, ——.
Nov. 15, 1834. £. s. d.
5 ft. 9 inch. 17 elm, lined, ruffed super linen 2 5 0
Tufted mattrass 0 14 0
No. 10 shroud, sheet, cap, and pillow 2 5 0
Stout lead coffin, soldering up 7 7 0
Lead plate ditto 0 5 0
Six men with lead coffin 0 18 0
Two men attending on the surgeons 0 6 0
Making up—plumbers 0 5 0
Elm case, covered with fine black cloth, set 2 rows all round, No. 1 nails; 4 pair cherub tin handles, gripes and drops; 8 screws, black 7 7 0
Brass engraved plate, fine lacquered 2 12 6
Six men in with case moving down stairs 0 18 0
Nov. 21:—
Best pall, lid of feathers 1 8 0
Four fine cloaks 0 6 0
Nine rich silk bands for gentlemen 6 6 0
Nine pair gentlemen’s best kid gloves 1 16 0
Two porters and furniture 16s. 0 18 0
Featherman, 2 pages and wands 0 12 6
Hearse and 4 horses 2 12 0
Feathers and velvets for ditto 3 3 0
Six hearse pages and truncheons 1 5 0
Mourning coach and four horses 2 12 0
Feathers and velvets for ditto 1 1 0
Two coach pages and wands 0 8 6
Two coachmen’s cloaks 0 2 0
Two velvet hammercloths 0 6 0
Attending funeral 0 7 6
Fifteen silk bands for 2 porters, 8 pages, 3 feathermen, and 2 coachmen 6 0 0
Fifteen pair gloves for ditto 1 2 6
Paid dues at St. Margaret’s 2 9 6
Lead fees ditto 0 16 7
Bell and searchers 0 8 0
Bearers 0 3 0
Sexton 0 3 0
Extra digging 0 15 0
Grave-maker 0 3 0
Men’s allowance, coffin case and funeral 0 12 6
5 10 7
£ 60 19 1
Exposition of the English Law in respect to Perpetuities in Public Burial Grounds.
[From the decision in the case of Gilbert v. Buzzard and Boyer, 2nd Haggard’s Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Consistory Court of London, containing the Judgments of the Right Hon. Lord Stowell.]
In what way the mortal remains are to be conveyed to the grave, and there deposited, I do not find any positive rule of law, or of religion, that prescribes. The authority under which the received practices exist, is to be found in our manners, rather than in our laws: they have their origin 270in natural sentiments of public decency and private affection; they are ratified by common usage and consent; and being attached to a subject of the gravest and most impressive nature, remain unaltered by private caprice and fancy, amidst all the giddy revolutions that are perpetually varying the modes and fashions that belong to the lighter circumstances of human life. That bodies should be carried in a state of naked exposure to the grave, would be a real offence to the living, as well as an apparent indignity to the dead. Some involucra, or coverings, have been deemed necessary in all civilized and Christian countries; but chests or trunks containing the bodies, descending along with them into the grave, and remaining there till their own decay, cannot plead either the same necessity, or the same general use.
The rule of law which says, that a man has a right to be buried in his own church-yard, is to be found, most certainly, in many of our authoritative text writers; but it is not quite so easy to find the rule which gives him the right of burying a large chest or trunk in company with himself. That is no part of his original and absolute right, nor is it necessarily involved in it. That right, strictly taken, is to be returned to his parent earth for dissolution, and to be carried thither in a decent and inoffensive manner. When these purposes are answered, his rights are, perhaps, fully satisfied in the strict sense in which any claim, in the nature of an absolute right, can be deemed to extend.
It has been argued, that the ground once given to the body is appropriated to it for ever; it is literally in mortmain unalienably; it is not only, the domus ultima, but the domus æterna, of that tenant, who is never to be disturbed, be his condition what it may; the introduction of another body into that lodgment at any time, however distant, is an unwarrantable intrusion. If these positions be true, it certainly follows, that the question of comparative duration sinks into utter insignificance.
In support of them, it seems to be assumed, that the tenant himself is imperishable; for, surely, there can be no inextinguishable title, no perpetuity of possession, belonging to a subject which itself is perishable. But the fact is, that “man” and “for ever” are terms quite incompatible in any state of his existence, dead or living, in this world. The time must come when “ipsæ periere ruinæ,” when the posthumous remains must mingle with, and compose a part of, that soil in which they have been deposited. Precious embalmments, and costly monuments may preserve for a long time the remains of those who have filled the more commanding stations of human life; but the common lot of mankind furnishes no such means of conservation. With reference to them, the domus æterna is a mere flourish of rhetoric; the process of nature will speedily resolve them into an intimate mixture with their kindred dust; and their dust will help to furnish a place of repose for other occupants in succession. It is objected, that no precise time can be fixed at which the mortal remains, and the chest which contains them, shall undergo the complete process of dissolution, and it certainly cannot; being dependent upon circumstances that vary, upon difference of soils, and exposures of seasons and climates; but observation can ascertain them sufficiently for practical use. The experience of not many years is required to furnish a sufficient certainty for such a purpose.
Founded on such facts and considerations, the legal doctrine certainly is, and has remained, unaffected; that the common cemetery is not res unius ætatis, the property of one generation now departed, but is, likewise, the common property of the living, and of generations yet unborn, and is subject only to temporary appropriations. There exists in the whole a right of succession, which can be lawfully obstructed only in a portion of it, by public authority, that of the ecclesiastical magistrate, who gives occasionally 271an exclusive title, in such portion, to the succession of some family, or to an individual, who has a fair claim to be favoured by such a distinction; and this, not without a just consideration of its expedience, and a due attention to the objections of those who oppose such an alienation from the common property. Even a bricked grave, granted without such an authority, is an aggression upon the common freehold interests, and carries the pretensions of the dead to an extent that violates the rights of the living.
If this view of the matter be just, all contrivances that, whether intentionally or not, prolong the time of dissolution beyond the period at which the common local understanding and usage have fixed it, is an act of injustice, unless compensated in some way or other. In country parishes, where the population is small, and the cemetery is large, it is a matter less worthy of consideration; more ground can be spared, and less is wanted; but, in populous parishes, in large and crowded cities, the indulgence of an exclusive possession is unavoidably limited; for, unless limited, evils of most formidable magnitude take place. Churchyards cannot be made commensurate to the demands of a large and increasing population; the period of decay and dissolution does not arrive fast enough in the accustomed mode of depositing bodies in the earth, to evacuate the ground for the use of succeeding claimants: new cemeteries must be purchased at an enormous expense to the parish, and to be used at an increased expense to families, and at the inconvenience of their being compelled to resort to very incommodious distances for attending on the offices of interment.
In this very parish three additional burial-grounds are alleged to have been purchased, and to be now nearly filled. This is the progress of things in their ordinary course; and if to this is to be added the general introduction of a new mode of interment, which is to ensure to bodies a much longer possession, the evil will become intolerable, and a comparatively small portion of the dead will shoulder out the living and their posterity. The whole environs of this metropolis will be surrounded with a circumvallation of church-yards, perpetually increasing, by becoming themselves surcharged with bodies, if indeed land-owners can be found who will be willing to divert their ground from the beneficial uses of the living to the barren preservation of the dead, contrary to the humane maxim quoted by Tully from Plato’s Republic:—“Quæ terra fruges ferre, et, ut mater, cibos, suppeditare possit, eam ne quis nobis minuat, neve vivus neve mortuus.”
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No. 13.
VIEW OF THE EXTENT OF INTRA-MURAL BURIAL GROUND PROVIDED, AS COMPARED WITH THE QUANTITY REQUIRED FOR THE METROPOLIS, AT THE STANDARD OF 110 PER ACRE.—Vide Report, § 159, § 160, § 161, § 171. The plan represents the statistical facts and proportions of space after the mode used by Mr. Sopwith, the engineer. Each square of the subjoined plate represents an acre. The extent of squares coloured shows the extent of ground occupied by each religious denomination. The blank spaces show the extent of deficiency of public ground for the burial of the population in single graves.
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BURIAL FEES.—A Return of the Amount of the Burial Fess received by the Clergymen of several of the Parishes of the Metropolis was given in to the Committee of the House of Commons by the Bishop of London. The following Table gives the same Amount of Fees divided by the Returns of the Number of Burials, in the Years 1830, 1831, and 1832, returned from the several Parishes, to an order of the House of Commons made in the Year 1834.
PARISHES. No. of Burials in 1830. No. of Burials in 1831. No. of Burials in 1832. Average of the three Years. Amount of Burial Fees in 1838. Amount of Burial Fees in 1839. Amount of Burial Fees in 1840. Average Burial Fees, 1838–9–40. Average Fee per Burial.
£. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d.
St. James, Westminster 1,063 1,168 1,087 1,106 329 0 0 298 0 0 246 0 0 291 0 0[66] 0 5 3
St. Botolph, Bishopsgate 248 300 319 289 36 1 2 42 7 2 23 9 10 33 19 4 0 2 3
St. George the Martyr 158 218 147 174 70 12 6 59 5 10 59 0 8 62 19 8 0 7 3
St. John, Westminster 815 893 984 897 123 7 0 93 19 8 105 13 7 107 13 5 0 2 5
St. George in the East 705 681 802 729 101 15 0 101 8 6 74 8 6 92 10 8 0 2 6
St. Bride 162 223 175 187 51 6 8 51 2 0 81 2 4[67] 61 3 8 0 6 7
St. Giles and St. George, Bloomsbury 1,296 1,669 1,934 1,633 1,038 4 0 768 4 0 870 15 0 892 7 8 0 10 11
St. Dunstan, Westminster 115 113 122 117 39 9 2 24 0 8 35 5 10 32 18 7 0 5 8
St. Clement Danes 395 524 494 471 121 14 9 112 19 10 86 3 4 106 19 4 0 4 6
Bethnal Green 617 951 1,064 877 71 4 0 67 4 0 62 3 6 66 17 2 0 1 6
St. Botolph, Aldersgate 140 169 160 156 60 8 4 58 2 8 45 10 0 54 13 8 0 7 0
St. George, Hanover Sq. 1,224 1,389 1,389 1,334 597 17 0 423 8 2 488 11 2 503 5 5 0 7 7
St. Giles, Cripplegate 231 225 307 254 87 9 6 66 6 10 56 14 10 70 3 9 0 5 6
St. Andrew, Holborn 587 586 847 673 306 0 1 324 14 1 223 15 2 284 16 5 0 8 6
St. Catherine Cree 36 33 40 36 75 3 6 43 16 6 56 13 6 58 11 2 1 12 6
St. Olave, Hart Street 22 19 28 23 60 8 0 37 4 0 32 2 0 43 4 8 1 17 7
Allhallows Barking 50 64 66 60 31 9 6 7 19 0 15 16 6 18 11 8 1 6 2
Total 7,864 9,224 9,965 9,016 3,202 0 2 2,580 2 11 2,563 5 9 2,781 16 3 0 6 2
N.B.—This List specifics only the Clergyman’s Fees, not those paid to the Churchwardens, Clerk, or Sexton.
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PAROCHIAL BURIAL-GROUNDS IN THE METROPOLIS.
PLACES OF BURIAL. Population in 1841. Estimated Extent in Square Yards. Annual Number of Burials. No. of Burials per Acre.
Allhallows Barking, Great Tower Street 1,924 825 50 293
All hallows, Bread Street 263 100 ‘Scarcely any’
Allhallows, Lombard Street 516 350 ‘Seldom used.’
Allhallows, London Wall 1,620 615 24 189
Allhallows, Staining Lane 502 619 20 156
Allhallows-the-Great, Thames Street 672 346} 50 319
Allhallows-the-Less, ditto 181 412}
Alphage, St. London Wall 976 388 50 624
Andrew’s. St 35,301 4,840 250 250
Andrew’s, St. Burial-ground, Gray’s Inn Lane 9,258 312 163
Andrew’s, St. Undershaft 1,163 265 70 1,278
Andrew’s, St. Wardrobe, and St. Ann, Blackfriars 3,596 657 100 737
Anne, St. and St. Agnes within Aldersgate 513 1,650 70 205
Ann’s, St. Limehouse 19,337 24,500 150 30
Anne’s, St. Soho 16,480 2,732 200 354
Augustine’s, St. and St. Faith’s. 1,070 3,700 30 39
Bartholomew, St. the Great 3,414 783 100 618
Bartholomew, St. the Less 744 183 8 212
Benet, St. Fink 383 277 6 105
Benet, St. Paul’s Wharf 588 297 36 587
Bennet, St. Sherehog 145 145 ‘Seldom used.’
Botolph, St. Aldersgate 5,906 1,918 250 631
Botolph, St. Aldgate 9,525 1,545 250 783
Botolph, St. Bishopsgate 10,969 3,034 250 399
Botolph, St. by Billingsgate 278 266 3 55
Bride’s, St. Fleet Street } 6,126 1,472 130 427
Ditto, Ground in Farringdon Street }
[68]Bridewell Chapel 529 2,400 10 20
Broadway Chapel of Ease to St. Margaret’s and St. John 7,220 500 335
Catherine, St. Coleman Street 322 388 36 449
Catherine, St. Cree, or Christchurch 1,740 1,100 100 440
Chapel Royal, Tower 525 4 37
Charlton Church 2,150 30 68
Chelsea Hospital Burial-ground Vide St. Luke. 6,696 55 40
Chelsea Old Church Vide St. Luke. 1,210 6 24
Christ Church, Blackfriars Road 8,448 520 298
Christ Church, Newgate Street 2,446 1,934 30 75
Christ Church, Spitalfields 20,436 6,413 350 264
Clement, St. Danes 15,459 1,736 100 279
Clement, St. Danes, 2nd Ground, Portugal Street 1,422 300 1,021
Cripplegate Poor-ground, Warwickplace, St. Luke’s 1,400 100 346
Dionis, St. Backchurch 806 132 20 733
Dunstan, St. Fleet Street 3,266 851 208 1,182
Dunstan, St. in the East 1,010 600 150 1,210
Dunstan, St. Stepney 63,723 21,795 200 44
East India Company’s Chapel Yard, High Street Poplar 6,447 60 45
Edmund, St. the King 391 164 ‘Seldom used.’
Ethelburga, St. 669 240 30 605
275Fulham Church 9,319 12,000 200 81
George’s, St. Bloomsbury 16,981 12,100 300 120
George, St. Botolph Lane 235 76 2 127
George’s, St. District Church, Camberwell 39,868 11,640 100 42
George, St. Hanover Square, Burial-ground, Uxbridge Road 66,453 21,200 1,200 240
George, St. in the East 41,350 15,000 500 161
George, St. the Martyr Vide St. Andrew’s. 12,100 200 80
George, St. Burial-ground, Old Kent Road 46,644 1,368 130 460
George, St. the Martyr, Southwark 4,050 470 562
Giles, St. Camberwell 39,868 16,000 500 151
Giles, St. Cripplegate 13,255 4,700 200 206
Giles, St. in the Fields 37,311 4,958 400 390
Ditto, Burial-ground, St. Pancras 24,200 1,560 312
Greenwich Church 29,755 2,740 700 1,236
[69]Greenwich Hospital Burial-ground 22,480 300 65
Gregory, St. by St. Paul’s 1,444 1,095 100 442
Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street 6,000 36 29
[69]Guy’s Hospital Ground, Snow’s Fields 3,120 85 132
Hackney, South Vide St. John 3,300 100 145
Hackney, West Vide St. John 6,534 200 148
Helen, St. Great 659 779 30 186
Holy Trinity, Brompton 9,515 26,524 100 18
Islington Chapel of Ease 17,659 416 114
James, St. Chapel of Ease, Clerkenwell 3,500 350 484
James, St. Clerkenwell 56,756 2,000 400 968
James, St. Burial-ground, Ray Street, Clerkenwell 800 150 907
James, St. Clerkenwell, 2nd Ground 1,000 300 1,452
James, St. Duke’s Place 964 338 15 215
James, St. Garlickhithe 520 162 20 598
James, St. New Church 8,100 260 155
James, St. Piccadilly 4,840 60 60
Ditto, Burial-ground, Hampstead Road 26,620 624 113
John, St. Baptist, Savoy 414 600 50 403
John’s, St. Chapel of Ease 26,000 1,560 290
John’s. St. Chapel, Walworth 6,400 150 113
John’s, St. Church, Waltham Green 3,600 15 20
John’s, St. Clerkenwell Vide St. James 315 200 3,073
Ditto, Burial-ground, Benjamin Street 1,079 12 54
John, St. the Evangelist 108 7,260 500 333
John, St. the Evangelist, Horslydown 9,740 250 124
John, St. the Evangelist, Great Waterloo Street 5,924 400 327
John’s, St. Hackney 37,771 31,000 700 108
John, St. the Baptist 367 363 12 160
John, St. High Street, Wapping 4,108 6,600 250 183
John’s, St. Hoxton 6,050 600 480
John, St. Zachary 183 905 6 32
276King’s Road, Chelsea 4,840 130 130
Lawrence, St. Jewry 625 200 35 847
Leonard’s, St. Ground, Hackney Road 2,000 225 544
Leonard’s, St. Shoreditch 83,432 8,000 300 181
Luke’s, St. Burial-ground, Bath Street 1,240 200 781
Luke, St. Chelsea, New Church 40,179 19,360 468 117
Luke’s, St. Old Street 49,829 9,287 500 261
Magnus, St. 239 44 6 660
Margaret’s. St 5,000 50 48
Margaret, St. Lothbury 189 291 12 300
Margaret, St. Pattens, with } 553 81 ‘Closed’
St. Gabriel, Fenchurch Street } 473 4 41
Mark’s, St. Kennington 8960 500 270
Martin, St. in the Fields, Burial-ground, Camden Town 19,360 832 208
Ditto, Burial-ground, Drury Lane 1,269 40 153
Martin, St. Orgars 353 99 ‘Seldom used’
Martin. St. Outwich 135 123 12 472
Martin, St. Vintry 288 450 3 32
Mary, St. Abbotts, Kensington 26,834 6,620 330 241
Mary, St. Abchurch, with St. Lawrence Pountney 907 566 6 51
Mary, St. Aldermanbury 751 313 30 464
Mary’s, St. Burial-ground 2,776 200 349
Mary, St. Aldermary 494 173 8 224
Mary, St. at Hill 987 167 40 1,159
Mary, St. at Bow 2,716 52 93
Mary, St. Chapel, Hammersmith 8,960 20 11
Mary, St. Haggerstone 7,260 100 67
Mary, St. Lambeth 115,888 2,400 250 504
Mary, St. Islington 55,690 7,450 750 487
Mary, St. le-Strand, Burial-ground, Russell Court 473 90 921
Mary, St. le-Strand 2,520 200 12 290
Mary. St. Love Lane 100 ‘Seldom used’
Mary Magdalen, St 288 12 202
Mary Magdalen, St. Bermondsey 34,947 9,184 600 316
Mary’s, St. Newington 54,606 8,160 350 208
Mary’s, St. Paddington 25,173 20,116 936 222
Mary’s, St. Rotherhithe, and 13,917 11,800 } 345 139
Trinity District Church 200 }
Mary, St. Somerset 375 389 ‘Seldom used’
Mary. St. Staining 268 423
Mary’s, St. Stoke Newington 3,000 50 81
Mary’s, St. Whitechapel 34,053 4,219 150 172
Ditto. Workhouse-ground 2,776 200 349
Mary, St. Woolnoth 317 33 ‘Very few’
Mary, St. Woolwich 25,785 12,800 600 227
Mary-le-bone, St. 138,164 13,500 520 186
Mary-le-bone, St. Old Church, High Street 1138,164 12,000 36 87
Mary-le-Bow, St 346 250 30 581
Matthew, St. Bethnal Green 74,088 12,100 600 240
Matthew, St. Friday Street 160 208 21 489
Michael, St. Bassishaw 687 222 30 654
Michael, St. Cornhill 454 240 6 121
Michael, St. Queenhithe 647 266 } 30 342
Ditto, Burial-ground, Trinity Lane 158 }
Mildred, St. Bread Street 351 242 ‘Seldom used’
277Mildred, St. Poultry 280 84
Nicholas, St. Acon 194 287
Nicholas, St. Cole Abbey 254 67 ‘Never used’
Nicholas, St. Olave 431 334 20 290
Pancras, St. Old Church 129,763 24,200 400 80
Paradise Row Burying-ground 8,532 1,040 590
[70]Paul’s, St. Cathedral 3,745 ‘Seldom used’
Paul’s. St. Covent Garden 5,718 4,064 } 200 129
Ditto. Burial-ground contiguous to workhouse 3,455}
Paul’s, St. Deptford 12,000 360 145
Paul’s, St. Hammersmith 9,888 6,888 200 141
Paul’s, St. Shadwell 10,060 3,000 250 403
[71]Penitentiary Burial Ground 432 10 112
Peter, St. Cheap, corner of Wood St 227 96 ‘Never used’
Peter, St. Cornhill 656 287 40 674
Peter, St. District Church, Walworth 7,800 300 186
Peter-le-Poor, St. 559 48 ‘Seldom used’
Peter’s, St. New Church, Hammersmith 3,565 1,210 50 200
Peter, St. Paul’s Wharf 341 292 ‘Seldom used’
Poplar New Church 20,342 14,686 300 99
Olave, St. Hart Street 816 462 36 377
Olave, St. Jewry 168 306 ‘Seldom used’
Olave, St. Silver Street 972 335 ‘Never used’
Olave’s, St. Tooley Street 6,745 770 200 1,257
Saviour’s, St 18,219 2,700 }
Ditto, Cross Bones Ground, Red Cross Street } 4,500 } 244 143
Ditto. College Park Street 1,040 }
Sepulchre, St 1,746 }
Ditto, in Church Lane 12,325 1,785 } 256 293
Ditto, in Durham Yard 702 }
Stephen, St. Walbrook 322 306 50 791
Swithin’s, St. Cannon Street 389 241 20 402
Ditto, 2nd Ground 66 24 1,760
Temple Church, St. Mary’s 400 ‘Very few’
Thomas Apostle, St. 648 340 ‘Seldom used’
[71]Thomas, St. Hospital Ground, Snow’s Fields 1,449 84 282
Trinity Church, Minories 579 302 7 112
Vedast, St 427 108 179
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PROTESTANT DISSENTERS’ BURIAL-GROUNDS AND OTHERS.
PLACES OF BURIAL. Estimated Extent in Sq. Yards. Annual Number of Burials. No. of Burials per Acre.
Episcopalians.
St. Leonard’s, Chapel, Bromley 270 52 932
St. George’s, Chapel, New Road 3,250 125 186
Presbyterians.
Gravel Pit Chapel, Hackney 3,300 100 147
St. Andrew’s, Scotch Church 900 100 538
Congregationalists or Independents.
Independent Chapel, Greenwich 1,000 100 484
Pulling’s Chapel, Deptford 400 50 605
Wickliffe Chapel, Stepney 600 150 1,210
Ebenezer Chapel, Shadwell 680 120 854
Dr. Burder’s, Hackney 3,168 100 153
Meeting House, Old Gravel Lane 60 4 23
Esher Street, Lambeth 1,210 72 288
Brunswick Chapel, Three Colts Street 480 72 524
Collier’s Rents, Borough 970 50 249
Abney Chapel, Stoke Newington 780 36 223
Mile End Chapel 2,420 52 104
Trinity Chapel, Poplar 1,200 36 145
Stockwell Green 725 ‘Very few’
Baptists.
Enon Chapel, Woolwich 112 25 1,080
Worship Street Chapel 720 30 202
Regent Street, Lambeth 320 12 181
Cox’s, Dr., Chapel, Hackney 824 26 153
Maze Pond 650 10 74
East Street Chapel 140 2 69
Hammersmith 2,420 30 60
Wesleyan Methodists.
Methodist Chapel, Woolwich 1,226 100 395
City Road Chapel 2,148 150 338
Stafford Street, Peckham 336 16 230
Wesleyan Chapel, Hammersmith 2,430 18 36
Southwark Chapel, Long Lane, Borough 780 ‘Very few’
Roman Catholics.
Parker Row, Dockhead 300 100 1,613
Moorfields 120 30 1,210
Poplar 833 140 813
Quakers.
Long Lane, Bermondsey 2,728 60 106
Coleman Street 4,759 35 35
Hammersmith 1,210 1 or 2 6
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Jews.
Mile End Road 4,840 52 52
North Street, Mile End Road 24,200 200 40
Chelsea 4,800 22 22
Grove Street 10,890 30 13
Foreign.
Swedish Chapel 450 10 108
Undescribed.
Union Chapel, Woolwich 1,500 100 323
Cannon Street Road 2,400 550 1,109
Paradise Row, Lambeth 8,532 1,040 590
New Bunhill Fields, Islington 4,300 520 585
Ebenezer Chapel, Long Lane 265 20 365
Bunhill Fields 18,150 600 160
Zion Chapel, High Street, Borough 210 2 46
Poplar Chapel 8,000 52 31
Maberly Chapel 270 3 54
Brook Street, Ratcliffe Highway 700 2 or 3 21
Millyard Chapel 960 1 5
Whitfield’s Chapel, St. Pancras 4,650 300 312
York Street Chapel, Lock’s Fields 1,860 ‘Very few’
Denmark Row, Cold Harbour Lane 400
Salem Chapel, Woolwich 360 ‘Seldom any’
Little Alie Street, Goodman’s Fields ‘Small’ 6
GENERAL BURIAL-GROUNDS.
PLACES OF BURIAL. Estimated Extent in Sq. Yards. Annual Number of Burials. No. of Burials per Acre.
[72]Bunhill Fields, City 8,000 1,000 605
[72]Bunhill Fields, New 3,250 1,560 2,323
[72]John’s, St., Borough 1,440 142 477
[72]London, North East 24,200 250 50
Spa Fields 14,520 1,560 520
CEMETERIES.
PLACES OF BURIAL. Estimated Extent in Sq. Yards. Annual Number of Burials. No. of Burials per Acre.
Highgate Cemetery 101,640 220 10
Nunhead ditto 242,000 208 4
East London ditto, Beaumont Square, Mile End 26,620 850 154
City of London and Tower Hamlets ditto, Mile End 135,520 624 22
West of London and Westminster ditto, Earls Court, Brompton 193,600 254 6
South Metropolitan ditto, Norwood 193,600 180 5
Kensal Green. All Souls’ Cemetery 222,640 800 17
Abney Park Cemetery 145,200 200 7
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