Crematorium in London, England
Golders Green Crematorium and Mausoleum was the firstcrematorium to be opened inLondon , and is one of the oldest crematoria in Britain.[ 1] [ 2] The land for the crematorium was purchased in 1900, costing £6,000 (equivalent to £820,000 in 2023) and the crematorium was opened in 1902 bySir Henry Thompson , founder of theCremation Society .[ 2]
Golders Green Crematorium, as it is usually called, is in Hoop Lane, offFinchley Road ,Golders Green , in northwest London, nearGolders Green Underground station . It is directly opposite theGolders Green Jewish Cemetery . (Golders Green is an area with a large Jewish population.) The crematorium issecular , accepts all faiths and non-believers; clients may arrange their own type of service or remembrance event and choose whatever music they wish.[ 1] [ 3] [ 4]
The crematorium gardens are listed at Grade I in theNational Register of Historic Parks and Gardens .[ 2]
The Bedford Chapel at Golders Green Crematorium Horder Japanese Garden Pond The lawfulness of cremation in Great Britain was not established until 1885. TheWoking Crematorium had already been built inWoking and proved successful. At that time, cremation was championed by the Cremation Society of England.[ 5] This society was governed by a council, at that time led by Sir Henry Thompson (president and founding member). There is a bust to his memory in the West Chapel of Golders Green Crematorium. Out of this Society was formed the London Cremation Company (which has its offices on the premises), who desired to build a crematorium within easy reach of London.
The crematorium in Golders Green was designed by the architect SirErnest George and his partner Alfred Yeates.[ 6] The gardens were laid out byWilliam Robinson .[ 2] The crematorium is a red brick building inLombardic style and was built in stages, as money became available.[ 2] [ 6] The crematorium opened in 1902 and was built in four phases (1901–1910, 1910–1911, 1912–1916, 1926–1928).[ 7] By 1939, the site was largely completed, although since then some buildings have been added. Since November 1902 more than 323,500 cremations have taken place at Golders Green Crematorium, far more than any other British crematorium. It is estimated that the crematorium now averages around 2,000 cremations a year. The funerals of many prominent people have taken place there over the last century.
Into the Silent Land byHenry Alfred Pegram The chimney of the crematorium is located within the tower and the building is in anItalianate style .[ 1] The 12 acres (4.9 ha) of gardens are extensively planted, and produce a beautiful and tranquil environment for visitors. There are several large tombs, two ponds and bridge, and a largecrocus lawn. Another notable feature is a special children's section, which includes a swinging bench. There is also a 'communist corner' with memorials to notable members of theCommunist Party of Great Britain . There are two cremation chapels and a Chapel of Memory. There are also threecolumbaria containing the ashes of thousands of Londoners and residents of neighbouring counties.
Fourteen holders of theVictoria Cross have been cremated here,[ 8] and there are locations and memorials for many other military personnel of all ranks, and from many countries. Largest among them is theCommonwealth War Graves Commission memorial, commemorating 496 British and Commonwealth military casualties of both World Wars who were cremated here. Designed by SirEdward Maufe , it was unveiled in 1952. Built inPortland stone with names listed on three bronze panels, it stands at head of an ornamental pond at the western end of the memorial cloister.[ 9]
At Christmas, aChristmas tree is erected in the field in front of the main buildings. Although the crematorium is secular, anativity scene is also placed near the Chapel of Memory.
TheFreud Corner at Golders Green Crematorium The crematorium gardens are listed at Grade I in theNational Register of Historic Parks and Gardens .[ 2] The Philipson Family mausoleum, designed byEdwin Lutyens , is aGrade II* listed building on theNational Heritage List for England [ 10] and the crematorium building,[ 6] the wall, along with memorials and gates,[ 11] the Martin Smith Mausoleum[ 12] andInto The Silent Land , a sculpture byHenry Alfred Pegram [ 13] are all Grade II listed buildings. The largest sculpture portraying someone cremated here is the statue of Indian industrialist and friend ofGandhi ,Ghanshyam Das Birla .
A map of the Garden of Rest and some information on persons cremated here is available from the office. Staff are available to help in finding a specific location.[ 6]
Ashes at Golders Green Crematorium [ edit ] Among those whose ashes are retained or were scattered here, are:
Richard Addinsell , English composer, ashes scattered in communal section of crocus lawn.[ 14] Larry Adler , American harmonica player[ 15] Kingsley Amis , British writer, one of theAngry young men Boris Anrep , Russian artistPegaret Anthony , British artist[ 16] Sir Fenton Aylmer, 13th Baronet , British soldier, VC recipient[ 17] SirEdward Battersby Bailey , geologist Lionel Bart , composer ofOliver! and many other shows and songsRonnie Biggs , criminal and participant ofThe Great Train Robbery of 1963 [ 18] Eric Blom , British musicologistSimon Blumenfeld , writer and columnistEnid Blyton , children's author (Famous Five, Noddy )Marc Bolan , musician, poet and writer (founder ofT. Rex )[ 19] [ 20] Bernard Bresslaw ,Carry On film series actor[ 21] Arthur Brough , actorGeorge Brown, Baron George-Brown , Labour party politician, ultimately Foreign Secretary.[ 22] Jack Bruce , Scottish composer, musician and member ofCream [ 23] Mrs Victor Bruce , racing motorist, speedboat racer and aviatorBella Burge , music hall performer and boxing promoterSirNeville Cardus , notable cricket writer, also distinguished music critic George Clarke, 1st Baron Sydenham of Combe , English colonial administrator and writer[ 24] Eric Coates , English composer of light music[ 25] Leslie Compton , English footballer and cricketer[ 26] Steve Conway , singer[ 27] Cicely Courtneidge , actress and comedian[ 28] Walter Crane , English artist and book illustratorTony Crombie , English jazz musicianVictor Dandré , Russian impresario and husband of Anna PavlovaEd Devereaux , Australian actorJames Dewar , British chemist and physicist (inventor of theDewar flask orvacuum flask )Edith Durham , writer, traveller and anthropologistRay Ellington , English musicianHavelock Ellis , intellectual[ 29] DameMillicent Fawcett , leader of thesuffragist movement Kathleen Ferrier , British singer[ 30] (there is a rosebed in her memory)Molly Fink , Australian socialite and wife of Marthanda Bhairava Tondaiman of Pudukkottai.[ 31] Bud Flanagan , singer and Crazy Gang starGeorge Frampton , British sculptorLynne Frederick , actressAnna Freud , daughter of Sigmund Freud, also a psychoanalyst, especially of children[ 32] Sigmund [ 33] andMartha Freud ,[ 34] father of modern psychoanalysis and his wifeErnest George , English architect (and who designed this crematorium with Alfred Yeates)[ 35] Simon Gipps-Kent , English actor, Crocus Lawn, Section 3HElinor Glyn , English romantic novelist and scriptwriter.Ernő Goldfinger , Hungarian born architect and designer of furnitureCharles Gray , English actorHughie Green , Canadian born quiz show host[ 36] Arthur Greenwood , EnglishLabour politician. (Ashes and memorial, Bay 17 of the East Boundary Wall.)[ 37] Joyce Grenfell , actress and comedian[ 38] John Gross , writerIrene Handl , actress and comedianTommy Handley , British comedian[ 39] Robert Harbin , South African born magician and writerSir Cedric Hardwicke , English actorJack Hawkins , actor[ 40] Tubby Hayes , English jazz musician[ 41] Ian Hendry , actorPatrick Hennessy , Irish Realist Artist[ 42] Dezo Hoffmann , Slovak photographer of actors and rock stars including the BeatlesHenry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford , British Conservative politicianLady Margaret Huggins and her husband SirWilliam Huggins , astronomers[ 43] Ralph Ince , American film actor, director and screenwriter[ 44] Gordon Jackson , actor[ 45] Alex James , footballerSid James , South African-born actor,Bless This House andCarry On film series star[ 46] Sir Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe , architect[ 47] Jimmy Jewel , comedianYootha Joyce , actress[ 48] Geoffrey Keen , actorBarbara Keogh , actressAlbert William Ketèlbey , English composer, conductor and pianist[ 49] Johnny Kidd , singerDavid Kossoff , actor, writer, and campaignerPaul Kossoff , musician (guitarist withFree , among others)[ 50] Alfred Lawrence, 1st Baron Trevethin , former Lord Chief Justice of England, drowned in fishing accident.[ 51] Doris Lessing , writer, 2007Nobel Prize in Literature laureatePercy Wyndham Lewis , artist and writerWilliam Howard Livens , military engineer and inventor[ 52] Wolf Mankowitz , British playwright and screenwriter[ 53] Karl Mannheim , Hungarian-born British sociologist, founder of thesociology of knowledge Moore Marriott , British comic actorMary Millar , British actress and singerMarthanda Bhairava Tondaiman ,Raja ofPudukkottai 1886–1928[ 31] Keith Moon , musician (drummer for The Who)[ 54] Janet Munro , actress, wife of actor Ian Hendry (above)[ 55] Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore , British soldier, politician andVC winner Ivor Novello , actor, writer and lyricist[ 56] Seán O'Casey , Irish playwrightJoe Orton , playwright[ 57] Betty Papworth , communist and anti-war activist[ 58] Val Parnell , impresarioAnna Pavlova , Russian ballerina[ 59] Harry Pollitt , General Secretary of theCommunist Party of Great Britain [ 60] Marie Rambert , ballerina and founder ofRambert Dance Company Edith Rosenbaum , First Class survivor of the sinking ofRMS Titanic [citation needed ] William Rust , Communist activist, editor ofThe Daily Worker [ 61] Ronnie Scott , British jazz musicianPhil Seamen , British jazz musicianPeter Sellers , actor and comedian[ 62] Geoffrey Shaw , composerElla Shields , Music Hall artiste and male impersonatorKathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon , abolitionist[ 63] Bernard Spilsbury , pathologistBram Stoker , Irish writer (Dracula )John Stride , actorMollie Sugden , actress, best known forAre You Being Served? [citation needed ] A.J.P. Taylor , historian[ 64] Sir Mowbray Thomson, K.C.S.I , British East India Company general and authorSir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet , surgeon and founder of the Cremation Society of England[ 5] Karl Tunberg , American screenwriter, author and film producer; past-President WGA, West (US)[ 65] Tommy Vance , British broadcaster[ 66] Conrad Veidt , German actor, following cremation in the US[ 67] [ 68] Vesta Victoria , music hall performer[ 69] DameBarbara Windsor ,Carry On film series,EastEnders actress[ 70] Bernie Winters , comedianVictoria Wood , British comedianMaurice Woodruff , English clairvoyant, following cremation in SingaporePeter Wyngarde , actor[ 71] Ashes taken elsewhere [ edit ] Among those cremated here, but whose ashes are elsewhere, are:
Dame Peggy Ashcroft , actress, ashes scattered in the Great Garden atNew Place ,Stratford-upon-Avon ,Warwickshire [ 72] Arnold Bennett , novelist, ashes buried atBurslem Cemetery, Staffordshire[ 73] Ernest Bevin , British Labour politician, ashes removed toWestminster Abbey SirAlfred Billson (1839–1907), Liberal MP, ashes buried atKensal Green Cemetery .[ 74] Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner , daughter ofCharles Bradlaugh , atheist and freethinking author and peace campaigner, ashes buried inBrookwood Cemetery .[ 75] Horatio Bottomley , British Liberal, later Independent, M.P., journalist, swindler, ashes scattered onSussex Downs [ 76] [ 77] Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken , Irish born British Conservative politician[ 78] ashes scattered onRomney Marshes .James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce , British jurist and Liberal politician, ashes buried at Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh.[ 79] Neville Chamberlain , British Conservative politician and Prime Minister, ashes removed to Westminster AbbeyAlan J. Charig , British Palaeontologist, ashes scattered with his wife’s at Woldingham Viewpoint near Oxted, Surrey.Peter Cook , British actor and comedian, ashes buried in an unmarked plot behindSt. John's Church inHampstead .Bebe Daniels , American actress, singer and writer, with her husband,Ben Lyon , at theHollywood Forever Cemetery , Hollywood[ 80] Sir Charles Dilke , Radical Liberal MP, his ashes were buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.[ 81] Ian Dury , English singer-lyricist, best known for No. 1 hit "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick ", his ashes have reputedly been scattered in theThames , there is a memorial bench inRichmond Park T. S. Eliot , Anglo-American poet, playwright, and literary critic, ashes in St Michael's Church inEast Coker , Somerset[ 82] Lily Elsie , actress (location of ashes unknown)[ 83] Barry Evans , English actor[ 84] (location of ashes unknown)John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher , Admiral of the Fleet, ashes buried atKilverstone , Norfolk.[ 85] John French, 1st Earl of Ypres , Field Marshal, ashes buried atRipple, Kent .[ 86] SirEdward German , composer, ashes buried atWhitchurch, Shropshire .[ 87] David Gest , Music producer, Comedian and Television personality. Funeral service held at Golders Green Crematorium on 29 April 2016,[ 88] His ashes were scattered inYork .[ 89] W. S. Gilbert , dramatist and author, who withArthur Sullivan wrote theSavoy operas ,[ 90] ashes buried at the Church of St. John the Evangelist,Stanmore .[ 91] Sir Charles Henry , expatriate Australian businessman and LiberalMember of Parliament (MP) in the British Parliament, ashes buriedWillesden Jewish Cemetery .[ 92] Richard Hillary , Anglo-Australian RAF fighter ace, ashes scattered over English Channel. He is listed on Commonwealth War Graves Commission cremation memorial.[ 93] [ 94] Reginald Hine , British historian, ashes scattered atMinsden Chapel Eric Hobsbawm , British historian, ashes interred atHighgate Cemetery Professor Louis Hoffmann (Angelo John Lewis), author of "Modern Magic " (1876) and other books on magic, games, amusements and puzzles. Funeral service and cremation took place at Golders Green on 29 December 1919, location of ashes unknown. Gary Holton , actor best known as the star ofAuf Wiedersehen, Pet , his ashes rest in Maesgwastad Cemetery,Welshpool , MontgomeryshireKenneth Horne , comedian and businessman, star ofMuch-Binding-in-the-Marsh ,Beyond Our Ken andRound the Horne , ashes buried atStoke Poges Memorial Gardens , Buckinghamshire.[ 95] A.E. Housman , classical scholar and poet, author ofA Shropshire Lad , ashes interred outsideSt Laurence's Church, Ludlow ,Shropshire , England[ 96] John Inman , actor, star ofAre You Being Served? ,[ 97] location of ashes unknownHenry Irving , stage actor in theVictorian era , ashes removed toWestminster Abbey Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading , Liberal politician and lawyer, ashes buried at the nearbyJewish cemetery [ 98] Henry James , American-born British novelist, ashes buried atCambridge, Massachusetts , U.S.A.[ 99] Jerome K. Jerome , writer, ashes buried at St Mary's Churchyard,Ewelme , OxfordshireKenrick Hymans ("Snakehips") Johnson , Guyanese-born British jazz band leader, cremated here,[ 100] ashes removed to chapel ofSir William Borlase's Grammar School ,Marlow, Buckinghamshire Adrian Jones , sculptor of various war and other military memorials, ashes interred outside St Laurence's Church, Ludlow.[ 101] Ernest Jones , psychoanalyst,[ 102] ashes were buried in the grave of the oldest of his four children in the churchyard ofSt Cadoc's Church, Cheriton on the Gower Peninsula[ 102] Hetty King , Music Hall artiste and male impersonator.Rudyard Kipling , British author and poet, ashes removed to Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey[ 103] SirAlexander Korda , Hungarian-born film producer,[ 104] ashes buried at Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens, Buckinghamshire.[ 95] Leonid Krasin , Russian and Soviet Bolshevik politician and diplomat, ashes buried in theKremlin Wall Necropolis Kit Lambert , manager and record producer forThe Who , ashes buried atBrompton Cemetery [ 105] Verity Lambert , television producer.Vivien Leigh , English actress, ashes were scattered on the lake at Tickerage Mill, nearBlackboys , Sussex[ 106] Alice Liddell , ashes removed toLyndhurst , Hampshire (seeAlice's Adventures in Wonderland ).Lieutenant GeneralSamuel Lomax , died of wounds World War I, ashes buried atAldershot Military Cemetery [ 107] Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll , ashes buried at theRoyal Burial Ground at Frogmore [ 108] Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn , the first member of theBritish Royal Family to be cremated, ashes buried at theRoyal Burial Ground atFrogmore [ 109] Charles Rennie Mackintosh , Scottish architect, ashes scattered at sea atPort Vendres , France.[ 110] [ 111] James Leslie Mitchell , Scottish author, who also wrote as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, ashes interred in the cemetery atArbuthnott inKincardineshire .[ 112] Matt Monro , singer, ashes removed by the family[ 37] George Moore (1852-1933), Irish novelist, ashes buried in an urn on Castle Island inLough Carra ,County Mayo , in sight of the ruins of his ancestral family home atMoore Hall .[ 113] John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn , Liberal politician, ashes buried atPutney Vale Cemetery .[ 114] Peter O'Toole , actor and author, cremated on 21 December 2013 in a wicker coffin,[ 115] ashes scattered inConnemara , Ireland.[ 116] Marian Cripps, Baroness Parmoor , anti-war activist, ashes taken toFrieth [ 117] H. G. Pelissier , actor, composer and satirist, ashes rest inMarylebone Cemetery [ 118] Admiral of the Fleet SirDudley Pound , ashes, with those of his wife, scattered at sea; commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cremation memorial here.[ 119] King Prajadhipok of Thailand, ashes removed to Chakri Throne Hall in theGrand Palace ,Bangkok .[ 120] [ 121] Wendy Richard , English actress, ashes interred atEast Finchley Cemetery Arnold Ridley , author and actor, ashes rest inBath Abbey Cemetery [ 122] Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford , politician and hereditary peer, President of the Cremation Society. Ashes buried atSt Michael's Church, Chenies , Buckinghamshire.Ernest Rutherford , 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, physicist, ashes removed to Westminster Abbey.[ 123] Shapurji Saklatvala , Indian-bornLabour andCommunist Member of the British Parliament . Cremated here, ashes buried at the Parsi burial ground inBrookwood Cemetery .[ 124] Dorothy L. Sayers , novelist, playwright, translator and critic. Her ashes are buried at the base of the tower ofSt Anne's Church, Soho .[ 125] Richard Bowdler Sharpe , zoologist, founder of theBritish Ornithologists' Club and Assistant Keeper of theBritish Museum [ 126] Sophia Duleep Singh (1876–1948) Indian princess and suffragette, daughter of the last Maharaja of the Punjab. Cremated here, ashes scattered in the Punjab.[ 127] F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead , lawyer-statesman, ashes buried atCharlton, Northamptonshire .[ 128] SirCharles Villiers Stanford , composer, ashes buried in Westminster Abbey.[ 129] Vivian Stanshall , founding member of theBonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band , artist, poet and broadcaster. His ashes are in the possession of his wife and daughter. A memorial plaque is in the crematorium's Poets' Corner, unveiled on 13 December 2015.[ 130] Air Vice Marshal SirFrederick Sykes , early Royal Air Force commander and Conservative politician, cremated here,[ 131] ashes scattered onSalisbury Plain .[ 132] Ellen Terry , actress, ashes kept atSt Paul's, Covent Garden , London[ 56] James Henry Thomas (1874–1949), Labour cabinet minister and railwaymen's trade union leader, ashes buried atSwindon , Wiltshire.[ 133] H. G. Wells , English author, ashes scattered at sea[ 134] Ralph Vaughan Williams , composer, ashes buried in North Aisle, Westminster Abbey[ 135] [ 136] Amy Winehouse , singer-songwriter, ashes buried atEdgwarebury Cemetery , alongside her grandmother.[ 137] Szmul Zygielbojm , Polish-Jewish political activist who committed suicide in London, in 1943, as a protest against international indifference towardsthe Holocaust . His ashes were transferred toNew York in 1961 by fellow members of the Bund Jewish Organization.[ 138] Scenes around Golders Green Crematorium
The Smith Mausoleum by Paul Phipps
Bench in the Garden of Rest
The Children's Garden
Interior of the columbarium
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Cemeteries and crematoria in London
The Magnificent Seven Other cemeteries
Former cemeteries Crematoria Cemeteries are listed by location; some are owned/managed by other London borough councils.