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Key Hill Cemetery
The site was a former quarry which became a cemetery in 1836, originally called the General Cemetery (as it was created by the General Cemetery Company which had been formed four years earlier), its name was changed by 1846 to Key Hill Cemetery after Arthur Kaye the husband of Ann Morrow, the co-heiress to the manor of Birmingham. Part of the area remained a quarry, which provided an income for the cemetery until the 1930s. The cemetery stopped receiving new "residents" in the 1960s I believe.
There used to be a stylish Mortuary Chapel designed by Charles Edge in Classical style with fluted Doric columns - but with typical Sixties foresight and taste, this was demolished in 1966.
The cemetery is home to a series of catacombs, a Victorian favourite method of interring the deceased, and these were accessible to the General Public as recently as the 1970s.
Several famous people are buried in the cemetery, most notably Joseph Chamberlain Link
one of the greatest men in the history of the city of Birmingham, who was buried here with a Civic Funeral in 1914.
The whole cemetery is EH Grade II* listed Link
There used to be a stylish Mortuary Chapel designed by Charles Edge in Classical style with fluted Doric columns - but with typical Sixties foresight and taste, this was demolished in 1966.
The cemetery is home to a series of catacombs, a Victorian favourite method of interring the deceased, and these were accessible to the General Public as recently as the 1970s.
Several famous people are buried in the cemetery, most notably Joseph Chamberlain Link
one of the greatest men in the history of the city of Birmingham, who was buried here with a Civic Funeral in 1914.The whole cemetery is EH Grade II* listed Link
by Rob Farrow
Created: Sat, 14 Mar 2015, Updated: Sat, 14 Mar 2015
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