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wimbourne road cemetery, bournemouth

Violin Sculpture Freda Payne Angel Main Avenue Angel and Mausoleum Modern Graves Emile Duss Tree Edward Bibby Angel

'LOST AWHILE OUR TREASURED LOVE
GAINED FOREVER SAFE ABOVE'
Epitaph to Lilian Joyce Lucas died October 12th 1930 age 10

'WHEN THY WORK IS DONE
LIE DOWN AND REST'
Epitaph to J. Christopher Tompson died 1906
J. Christopher Tompson Figure Sculpture Rows of Graves Chapel from the West Chapel from the South Mausoleum

information

Opened in 1877 the main entrance and Sexton's Lodge are located at the Southern corner of the site, near to the centre of town and the busy 'Cemetery Junction'. A wide carriageway curves Northwards to the centrally located chapel. The chapel was designed by Christopher Crabbe Creek (the Town Surveyor in 1877). The design includes some impressive inset figural sculpture not common in earlier cemetery chapels and the stonework was refurbished during 1993.

Grave plots run parallel to the main East-West Carriageway rather than the site boundaries. Often modern grave plots can be found where there was previously a perimeter pathway. The cemetery has a particularly well preserved range of late Victorian planting with an avenue of monkey puzzle trees and varigated hollies. A number of Chilean Pines on the pathway to the chapel were damaged during 1990 and have been replaced. The boundary is marked with a metre high brick wall topped by a fence and planted with hollies. There is evidence that there were originally iron railings above the brickwork. The site has little variation in ground level.

There are some interesting examples of grave sculpture including several large and intricate carved figures from the 1920s and 1930s in the Northern section.

further links

Bournemouth
* Official city site lots of information
The Gentle Giant - Buried at Wimbourne Road Cemetery
* Story of a tall man named Chang Woo Gow buried at the cemetery
GENUKI - Dorset
* Genealogy Resources for Dorset
Find a Grave by City
* Bournemouth
UK Cemetery and Friends Group Links
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