South Ealing Cemetery

South Ealing Cemetery (formerly Ealing and Old Brentford Cemetery) is a cemetery in Ealing established in 1861.[1] The cemetery covers 21 acres.[2]

The cemetery contains the Commonwealth war graves of 184 armed service personnel, as well as that of a Belgian soldier of World War I.[2][3]

The cemetery contains two Grade 2 listed chapels at the South Ealing Road entrance. The chapels are linked by a carriage arch, with clock and belfry above, designed by Ealing's prolific municipal architect Charles Jones (architect) and built in 1861.[4] The stained glass in the chapel was designed in 1908 by the Ealing designer, Edward Stanley Watkins, who lived nearby on Ranelagh Road.[5]

Ealing Parks Foundation working in partnership with local volunteers and Ealing Council are leading a project to renovate the chapels and reactivate the cemetery grounds as an oasis for nature and wellbeing.

References

  1. ^ South Ealing Cemetery, London Parks & Gardens Trust, 2012, archived from the original on 30 August 2013
  2. ^ a b [1] CWGC Cemetery report.
  3. ^ [2] CWGC casualty record, Pierre Francois Van Wesemael, soldier Belgian Army.
  4. ^ "Two chapels at South Ealing Cemetery". Historic England List. Historic England. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  5. ^ "Watkins, E. Stanley". The Studio Year Book of Decorative Art: 79. 1909. Retrieved 6 September 2025.

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