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East Finchley Cemetery is a cemetery and crematorium in East Finchley
East Finchley

East Finchley is a suburb in the London Borough of Barnet, in north London, and situated north-west of Charing Cross. Geographically it is somewhat separate from the rest of Finchley, with North Finchley and West Finchley to the north, and Finchley Central to the west....
 in the London Borough of Barnet
London Borough of Barnet

The London Borough of Barnet is a London borough in North London and forms part of Outer London. It borders Hertfordshire to the north and five other London boroughs: London Borough of Harrow and London Borough of Brent to the west, London Borough of Camden and London Borough of Haringey to the south-east and London Borough of Enfield to the...
. The facilities are owned and managed by the City of Westminster
City of Westminster

The City of Westminster is a London borough of London with City status in the United Kingdom. It is located west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, and forms part of Inner London and the bulk of London's central area....
.

The St Marylebone Burial Board purchased of Newmarket Farm in 1854; 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
Listed building

A listed building in the United Kingdom is a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance....
. A principle feature are two Lebanon Cedar
Lebanon Cedar

Cedrus libani , is a species of cedar native to the mountains of the Mediterranean region, in Lebanon, western Syria and south central Turkey, with variety of it in southwest Turkey, Cyprus, and the Atlas Mountains in Algeria and Morocco in northwest Africa....
 trees planted on the front lawn.






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East Finchley Cemetery is a cemetery and crematorium in East Finchley
East Finchley

East Finchley is a suburb in the London Borough of Barnet, in north London, and situated north-west of Charing Cross. Geographically it is somewhat separate from the rest of Finchley, with North Finchley and West Finchley to the north, and Finchley Central to the west....
 in the London Borough of Barnet
London Borough of Barnet

The London Borough of Barnet is a London borough in North London and forms part of Outer London. It borders Hertfordshire to the north and five other London boroughs: London Borough of Harrow and London Borough of Brent to the west, London Borough of Camden and London Borough of Haringey to the south-east and London Borough of Enfield to the...
. The facilities are owned and managed by the City of Westminster
City of Westminster

The City of Westminster is a London borough of London with City status in the United Kingdom. It is located west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, and forms part of Inner London and the bulk of London's central area....
.

The St Marylebone Burial Board purchased of Newmarket Farm in 1854; 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
Listed building

A listed building in the United Kingdom is a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance....
. A principle feature are two Lebanon Cedar
Lebanon Cedar

Cedrus libani , is a species of cedar native to the mountains of the Mediterranean region, in Lebanon, western Syria and south central Turkey, with variety of it in southwest Turkey, Cyprus, and the Atlas Mountains in Algeria and Morocco in northwest Africa....
 trees planted on the front lawn. The crematorium was opened in 1937.

Due to local government reorganisation, the cemetery was managed by the Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone
Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone

The Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone was a metropolitan borough of the County of London from 1900 to 1965. It was based directly on the previously existing civil parish of St Marylebone, which was incorporated into the Metropolitan Board of Works area in 1855, retaining a parish vestry, and then became part of the County of London in 18...
 – 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.

The cemetery was awarded a Green Flag Award
Green Flag award

The Green Flag Award is the benchmark national standard for parks and green spaces in the United Kingdom. The scheme was set up by Mark Davis in 1996 to recognise and reward green spaces in England and Wales that met the laid down high standards....
 in 2007.

Notable burials

  • Sir Henry Bishop
    Henry Bishop

    Sir Henry Rowley Bishop was an English musical composer. He is famous today for the songs Home! Sweet Home! and Lo, Hear the Gentle Lark, but was the composer or arranger of some 120 dramatic works, including 80 operas, light operas, cantatas, and ballets....
     – Professor of Music at Oxford and operatic composer.
  • Leopold Stokowski
    Leopold Stokowski

    Leopold Stokowski was a famous orchestral conducting, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted....
     – Conductor.
  • Sir Robert Harmsworth
    Harmsworth Baronets

    There have been four Baronetcies created for members of the Harmsworth family, all in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. All four recipients were brothers of each other....
     – Newspaper Publisher with a memorial by Edwin Lutyens
    Edwin Lutyens

    Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, Order of Merit , Order of the Indian Empire, Royal Academy, Royal Institute of British Architects, LLD was a leading 20th century British architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era....
    .
  • Lord Northcliffe – Founder of the Daily Mail
    Daily Mail

    The Daily Mail is a United Kingdom newspaper, currently published in a tabloid format. First published in 1896 by Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun ....
    .
  • Sir Joseph Chamberlain – Son of Joseph Chamberlain
    Joseph Chamberlain

    Joseph Chamberlain was an influential British businessman, politician, and statesman.In his early years Chamberlain was a radically minded Liberal Party member, a campaigner for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade....
     and brother of Neville Chamberlain
    Neville Chamberlain

    Arthur Neville Chamberlain was a British Conservative Party politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain is best known for appeasement foreign policy, in particular regarding his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany, and for his "containm...
    .
  • Sir George Hayter
    George Hayter

    Sir George Hayter was a notable England Painting, specialising in portraits and large works involving in some cases several hundred individual portraits....
     – Queen Victoria’s principal painter in ordinary.
  • Algernon Borthwick 1st Baron Glenesk – Memorial chapel and Mausoleum.
  • Thomas Henry Huxley – Scientist.
  • Heath Robinson – Artist and cartoonist.
  • Marie Studholme
    Marie Studholme

    File:Marie Studholme00.jpgMarie Studholme , born Caroline Maria Lupton or Marion Lupton, was an English people actress and singer known for her supporting and sometimes starring roles in Victorian era and Edwardian musical comedy....
     - Actress.
There are 75 Commonwealth burials of World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 in the cemetery. There are a further 79 burials of World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. There is a Screen Wall memorial, behind the Cross of Sacrifice, recording the names of the 1939-1945 casualties who were cremated.

External links

  • (City of Westminster}
  • (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)


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