The Victorian Cemetery
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Description
The fascinating story of the Victorian cemetery: a historical and architectural phenomenon, ideal for anyone interested in British social history and the landscapes of our forbears.
Planned with the same passion as a landscape garden, filled with monuments that represented the start of the art of craftsmanship in stone, and equipped with expensively constructed and fashionably designed gatehouses and chapels of rest, the Victorian cemetery was a matter of real civic pride. It was also the ultimate expression of the 'cult of the dead' that gripped every Victorian.
This beautifully illustrated book traces the history of these remarkable landscaped spaces, which provided towns and cities with some of their most extraordinary, and charming, reminders of the sensibilities of an age long gone.
Table of Contents
Origins
Creating the Garden Cemetery
John Claudius Loudon
The Great Garden of Death, 1850–1901
Paradise Preserved? The Cemeteries Today
Further Reading
Places to Visit
Index
Product details
| Published | 30 Nov 2008 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 64 |
| ISBN | 9780747807018 |
| Imprint | Shire Publications |
| Illustrations | 30 b/w; 50 col |
| Dimensions | 210 x 149 mm |
| Series | Shire Library |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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