HISTORY continued
Joseph Chapman built the mortuary chapel and superintendent's cottage, as well as the grand gates, railing and piers and walled the plot all around to create the cemetery. A price list dated 1852 quotes that the price for a walled (brick lined) grave, already dug and sixteen feet deep, would be five guineas. These were family vaults, so there could be two or three burials on the same plot, one above another.
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HISTORY continued
Joseph Chapman built the mortuary chapel and superintendent's cottage, as well as the grand gates, railing and piers and walled the plot all around to create the cemetery. A price list dated 1852 quotes that the price for a walled (brick lined) grave, already dug and sixteen feet deep, would be five guineas. These were family vaults, so there could be two or three burials on the same plot, one above another.
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