Litten Burial Ground
Chichester, Chichester District, West Sussex, England
Copied from historical marker: Where you are standing used to be the burial ground for Chichester. It was probably first used in the early 1100s, although there had been an earlier Roman cemetery on part of the site. The burial ground was divided in two by what is now New Park Road. Few burials were permitted after 1860 and sheep were allowed to graze but the area was generally neglected.
In 1937 the inscriptions on the gravestones were recorded and the stones were moved into rows. The inscriptions were recorded again in the late 1990s and can be seen at the West Sussex Record Office, Orchard Street, Chichester.
People buried here include the Smith brothers, who were celebrated local artists, together with their three young siblings who all died from smallpox in August 1759, women who died in childbirth, and a man killed by the kick of a horse. The oldest gravestone dates back to 1690.
In 2008 gravestones which had been in the New Park Road car park were moved across the road and repositioned.
An archaeological dig in 2011 removed more human remains from the New Park car park former burial ground and these were reburied in the churchyard of All Saints, Portfield, and the gravestones related in bitten Gardens in 2012.
Copied from historical marker: Where you are standing used to be the burial ground for Chichester. It was probably first used in the early 1100s, although there had been an earlier Roman cemetery on part of the site. The burial ground was divided in two by what is now New Park Road. Few burials were permitted after 1860 and sheep were allowed to graze but the area was generally neglected.
In 1937 the inscriptions on the gravestones were recorded and the stones were moved into rows. The inscriptions were recorded again in the late 1990s and can be seen at the West Sussex Record Office, Orchard Street, Chichester.
People buried here include the Smith brothers, who were celebrated local artists, together with their three young siblings who all died from smallpox in August 1759, women who died in childbirth, and a man killed by the kick of a horse. The oldest gravestone dates back to 1690.
In 2008 gravestones which had been in the New Park Road car park were moved across the road and repositioned.
An archaeological dig in 2011 removed more human remains from the New Park car park former burial ground and these were reburied in the churchyard of All Saints, Portfield, and the gravestones related in bitten Gardens in 2012.
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- Added: 13 May 2025
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2829738
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