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Seventh Day Adventist Church, Ivydale Road
Originally the Waverley Park Mission Church around 1900, it has long been an Adventist church.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 26 Jul 2005
0.06 miles
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Nunhead Cemetery
Opened in 1840, one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London.
Image: © Peter Trimming
Taken: 9 Jul 2024
0.07 miles
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Nunhead Cemetery
Opened in 1840, one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London.
Image: © Peter Trimming
Taken: 9 Jul 2024
0.07 miles
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Monuments, Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove (1)
The cemetery's main paths have been cleared, but many monuments remain romantically entwined with nature.
Nunhead Cemetery is one of the “Magnificent Seven” cemeteries founded in the early C19th to deal with the expanding population of London. It was laid out by James Bunning and opened in 1840.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 1 Nov 2014
0.07 miles
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Nunhead Cemetery
Opened in 1840, one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London.
Image: © Peter Trimming
Taken: 9 Jul 2024
0.08 miles
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Monuments, Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove (2)
The cemetery's main paths have been cleared, but many monuments remain romantically entwined with nature.
Nunhead Cemetery is one of the “Magnificent Seven” cemeteries founded in the early C19th to deal with the expanding population of London. It was laid out by James Bunning and opened in 1840.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 1 Nov 2014
0.08 miles
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Nunhead Cemetery
Graves, down the slope from the chapel.
Image: © Peter Trimming
Taken: 17 Nov 2023
0.10 miles
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Railway line to Crofton Park
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 12 May 2012
0.11 miles
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Nunhead Cemetery
Resident fox, relaxing in a sunny location.
Image: © Peter Trimming
Taken: 23 May 2023
0.12 miles
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Memorial in Nunhead Cemetery
Nunhead Cemetery is one of 'The Magnificent Seven Cemeteries' along with Norwood, Brompton, Kensal Green, Highgate, Abney Park and Tower Hamlets.
At the time that Nunhead Cemetery opened in 1840, Nunhead was a small hamlet surrounded by market gardens and open fields. Nunhead Hill was the site chosen for the cemetery. It rises to 200 feet above sea level at the highest point and provides extensive views to St Paul's in one direction and to the North Downs in the other. The layout was designed by James Bunstone Bunning who also designed the two gate lodges.
The Anglican chapel at the top of the main drive was designed by Thomas Little in 1843 but fell victim to an act of arson in the late 1970s. The structure, including the crypt below, was made safe by a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2000.
A gradual decline in maintenance after the Second World War reached a crisis in the 1960s when the United Cemetery Company proposed to build houses on part of the cemetery. Eventually Southwark Borough Council stepped in to buy the cemetery for £1 in 1975. A programme of restoration began in 1982 when the Friends of Nunhead Cemetery was formed.
This unusual gravestone lists every member of the family from Grandma (top left) who died in 1875 and includes the usual infant deaths (top right). Its setting can be seen at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6838798
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 15 May 2021
0.12 miles