After spending time at The Museums & Heritage Show yesterday I crossed over the road from Earls Court into another world, a world of the dead - Brompton Cemetery.
The cemetery was one of seven large cemeteries in London founded by private companies in the mid-nineteenth century. Designed by Benjamin Baud in 1839-40 it is one of the best; with entrance gates and long stone arcading leading to a domed chapel, all in classical style and listed Grade 11*.
The cemetery also contains a number of fine, listed memorials and thousands of grave stones packed very close together and in some places forming a sea of crosses. Perhaps not as 'atmospheric' as Highgate Cemetery (where the Sleigh have a family grave) Brompton certainly is still outstanding.
