Louth Cemetery
Cemetery in Lincolnshire, England
Louth Cemetery on London Road (also known as London Road Cemetery) is the cemetery for Louth in Lincolnshire. Opened in 1855, the cemetery's distinctive gate lodge and two cemetery chapels were designed by Lincoln architects Bellamy and Hardy. The gate lodge is a Grade II listed building on the register of Historic England.
History
Louth Cemetery was established in 1854 by Louth Burial Board. The lodge house and two chapels were built in 1855 at a cost £2,700. Louth Cemetery originally covered about 10 acres. The Anglican chapel and half the burial ground was consecrated by John Jackson, the Bishop of Lincoln on 29 December 1855, while the remaining half of the cemetery and the second chapel were reserved for the use of nonconformists. When the churchyard at the now-demolished Church of St Mary became full there was a need for a new burial ground for the town. The site for the new Louth Cemetery was chosen in 1854 after complaints from the townspeople about exposed and dismembered bodies being found at the old St Mary's burial site. This was highlighted in an article by William Brown in the Mercury newspaper in September 1843.
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