Kirkley Cemetery is a burial ground in the

Kirkley Kirkley is a district within the town of Lowestoft in the East Suffolk (district), East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is located south of the centre of Lowestoft and the town's harbour and Lake Lothing. Kirkley was origin ...

area of

Lowestoft Lowestoft ( ) is a coastal town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England.OS Explorer Map OL40: The Broads: (1:25 000) : . As the most easterly UK settlement, it is north-east of London, north-east of Ipswich and sou ...

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. Located on London Road South, the cemetery is maintained by

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and is open for traditional and Green Burials. The cemetery contains 59 war burials from both World Wars which are registered with and maintained by the

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. Amongst them are Lance Corporal John Murdoch Dirom who was killed during preparations for

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in 1944 aged 22. Here also are buried civilian casualties of air raids on Lowestoft during

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. The cemetery's

Lychgate A lychgate, also spelled lichgate, lycugate, lyke-gate or as two separate words lych gate, (from Old English ''lic'', corpse), also ''wych gate'', is a gateway covered with a roof found at the entrance to a traditional English or English-style ch ...

, South Western and North Eastern Chapels Kirkley Cemetery North Eastern Chapel
on the

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website were all listed in 1998 as Grade II

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s.Kirkley Cemetery on the British Listed Buildings website
/ref> These were designed by the Lowestoft-born architect

J. L. Clemence John Louth Clemence (1822, Lowestoft, Suffolk – 1911, Mutford, Suffolk) was an English architect, active in Suffolk, particularly Lowestoft. Early life Clemence learnt his trade from 1839 to 1843 in the London offices of C.R. Cockerell. He t ...

(1822–1911) and were built in 1880. The first burials took place soon after.

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Kirkley Cemetery Records on the Waveney District Council website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kirkley Cemetery Lowestoft Cemeteries in England Grade II listed buildings in Suffolk Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in England

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