The cemetery lodge and lime avenue to Mill Road were designed as a whole. The lodge originally housed a small mortuary chapel and committee room, as well as living quarters for the cemetery's custodian. It is now privately owned. The walls are faced with split flint, a common building material elsewhere in East Anglia but rare in Cambridge. A stone plaque above the front door says "Parochial Burial Grounds, consecrated Nov 7 1848".
William Crowe
The massive tomb of William Crowe (d. 1859) is unusual both for its sarcophagus design and for the stone, which has very prominent crystals. The sarcophagus is lifted off the ground on four legs.
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James Rattee |
The Rattee, Kett and Moyes tombs form a group. The earliest is the tomb of James Rattee (d.1855). James Rattee was one of the founders of Rattee and Kett, the Cambridge firm of wood carvers and architectural sculptors. Several of his family are also mentioned on his tomb. On the east end of the tomb of Elizabeth (d. 1913) and George (d.1933) Kett is depicted the kneeling figure of Mary Magdalene. On the front of the Moyes tomb is an inscription to Elizabeth Moyes (d. 1865) and her husband John Andrew Moyes (d. 1887). Round the side, it mentions John James Moyes (d. 1857 aged 22), presumably their son.
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Elizabeth and John Moyes |
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Harry Hall
The tomb of Harry Hall (d. 1863) has a relief on the front, based on Torvaldsen's 'Night', of an angel carrying a child. |
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Lawrence family
The Lawrence family is notable for the frieze of finely carved beribboned wreaths. The inscriptions refer to Elizabeth Rist Lawrence (d. 1857), her husband Edward (d. 1876) and a second Edward, who died in 1861, aged 25. |
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Hermann Bernard
The tomb of Hermann Bernard features an unusual obelisk design. Bernard (d. 1857) was a professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University and author of a practical guide to Hebrew grammar and translation. There is a Hebrew inscription on the tomb, at the bottom. |
James Reynolds
The tomb of James Reynolds (d. 1868) says he was "Many years driver of the Telegraph Coach from Cambridge to London". It adds a quotation from Hamlet, "All who live must die, Passing through Nature to Eternity". |
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