Mitcham churchyard: former mortuary
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Mitcham churchyard: former mortuary
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 13 Jan 2010
The building looked to me to be out of keeping with churchyard buildings and possibly the right size and style for a London Electricity Board substation of the 1930s (or thereabouts). However I have since been informed by someone who used to live nearby that it was the mortuary including "slabs where the bodies were laid out for inspection after death". There was a separate cemetery chapel, which has now been demolished, and the mortuary is now disused with the windows bricked up.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.404106
Longitude
-0.175424