Friday 12 December 2014

December 12 : Thoughts from the Cemetery







'It ought to be a general rule to place handsome monuments at particular points of view;such as at angles formed by the junction or intersection of roads or walks, terminations to straight walks, points seen from the entrances and from the chapel, &c.'   

John Claudius Loudon, 1843; On the laying out, planting, and managing of Cemeteries, and on the improvement of Churchyards.

The cemetery only contains one example of mausolea and this is shown above. It can be seen from the entrance, just, allowing for the planting that has subsequently taken place to form the driveway. The magnificent grey mausoleum for the wife of William Hogg  of Pembury, Eliza Susannah Hogg, can also be seen from the chapel.

                            

This ends extracts from Loudon and for the rest of the month there will be more symbolic Victorian imagery.

Friends of Tunbridge Wells Cemetery link Here

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