Christchurch Cemetery in Christchurch, Dorset

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Christchurch, Christchurch Borough, Dorset England

Coordinates: 50.74278, -1.79409
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Christchurch Cemetery has been the principal burial place for the town since it opened on 1 January 1858. The first burial, that of Mrs Ann Dugdale of Parley, took place on the same day.

A new cemetery had been required for some years because the town centre burial grounds were rapidly running out of space. In 1856 the Christchurch Burial Board acquired farmland at Grove Corner, about a mile to the north-west of the town, from local landowner Lord Malmesbury.

The cemetery Lodge and two Chapels (Episcopalian and Dissenting) were designed by celebrated local architect Benjamin Ferrey in the Gothic Revival style of his mentor, Augustus Pugin.

Christchurch Cemetery has been twice extended westward and is now double its original size. It covers an area of 16½ acres. It is a lawn cemetery with numerous shrubs and large specimen trees that create a haven for wildlife.