Halloween in Loughborough cemetery

So, my blogpost was just about ready, when I realised I needed to go out for a walk. It being 31 October, I decided to take a late evening walk around the cemetery, a place I often go in the daytime, but not somewhere I'd ever have thought to go on a dark evening, never mind on Halloween! 

So, I took the hubby with me, and we took a few paths that we'd never been along before, which proved to be rather interesting. We also saw the illuminated cemetery chapels from many different angles, although we did lose the path at one point as a large tree had fallen across it, and I think smashed a few graves. 

Here's the entry I wrote for the cemetery chapels from 'Loughborough in 50 Buildings':

"The government’s first Public Health Act (1848), which permitted the creation of local Boards of Health, received Royal Assent, following a second national outbreak of cholera. A series of Burial Acts were also passed, culminating in the Burial Act, 1854, allowing town councils to create Burial Boards, such boards being responsible for establishing parish cemeteries.

Loughborough Cemetery was created following the passing of the Burial Acts, the chapel being designed by architects Bellamy and Hardy of Lincoln in the popular Gothic Revival style, and built by John Sudbury of Loughborough.

At a ceremony in July 1856, a procession, including members of the Burial Board, which comprised many well-known local men, including Edward Chatterton Middleton, Edward Warner, Beauvoir Brock, and Henry Toone, walked from the Town Hall to the cemetery, where Edward Middleton laid the foundation stone for the chapels.

Expansion at the end of the nineteenth century was followed by the creation of a new cemetery in 1947, and in 2017 further expansion has been proposed. Remedial and conversion work was carried out on the deteriorating chapels in 1993 and they are now home to the Cibes Lift Group.

According to Pevsner these are the best cemetery chapels in the country." 

Knowing how awful my camera is at nighttime photos I used my phone to take some shots. Some are ok, others I know are a bit blurred, but I thought I'd share them with you anyway.

The path to the cemetery

Nearly there

A dedicated part of the cemetery

Another dedicated part of the cemetery

The cemetery chapels

The cemetery chapels

The cemetery chapels

The cemetery chapels

The fallen tree

The cemetery chapels

The cemetery chapels

The cemetery chapels

Oops, a bit blurry!

The cemetery chapels under a blue moon and a hunter's moon. Won't see this again until 2039!

The entrance gates

And here are some photos I took early on the evening of 7 October 2020:

The cemetery chapels

The cemetery chapels

The cemetery chapels

A memorial in the newer section of the cemetery

If you're interested in headstones in the daylight, there's plenty of posts about Swithland slate on my blog:

Churchyards

Cholera and cemeteries

Swithland slate in local churchyards

Swithland slate gravestones

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Dyer, Lynne (2020). Fire in a Loughborough building. Available from:https://lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com/2020/10/halloween-in-loughborough-cemetery.html  [Accessed 1 November 2020]

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