York Cemetery
The most evocative place in York, much overgrown, with many rewarding memorials and a very fine Greek Revival chapel by [J. P.] Pritchett. — Pevsner and Neave, p. 180
Links to discussions
- History and plan
- Cemetery buildings (chapel and lodge)
- Boundaries (gates, railings and walls)
- Selected monuments
- Later history
Parks in York
Bibliography
Ellerby, William, and James Piggott Pritchett. Manuscript edited and introduced by Edward Royle. A History of the Nonconformist churches of York. Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, 1993.
Hogarth, Peter and Ewan Anderson. “The most fortunate situation …” The Story of York’s Museum Gardens. York: The Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 2018.
Murray, Hugh. This Garden of Death: The History of York Cemetery 1837-2007. York: Friends of York Cemetery, 2008.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, and David Neave. Yorkshire: York and the East Riding. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002.
Created 16 March 2022
Last modified 23 August 2023