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__NOTOC__ St Sepulchre's Cemetery is a historic cemetery located on Walton Street,
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. The cemetery was opened in 1848 as a cemetery for the Oxford parishes of St Giles, St Michael, and St Mary Magdalen, and the district chapelry of St Paul's Church (which included outlying parts of St Thomas's parish before St Barnabas Church was built). The cemetery was created because all the other existing Oxford cemeteries were overcrowded after many hundreds of years of burials; two other cemeteries,
Osney Cemetery Osney Cemetery (also known as Osney St Mary Cemetery) is a disused Church of England cemetery in Osney, west Oxford, England. Its entrance is in Osney Lane, which runs off the south end of Mill Street, south of Botley Road and near the site of ...
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Holywell Cemetery Holywell Cemetery lies behind St Cross Church, Oxford, St Cross Church in St Cross Road, Oxford, England, south of Holywell Manor on Manor Road, Oxford, Manor Road and north of Longwall Street, in the parish of Holywell, Oxford, Holywell. Histo ...
, were also opened at the same time, to cater to the other eight Oxford parishes. In 1855, new burials were forbidden in all Oxford churchyards, with burials only to take place in existing vaults. However, this order seems to have been ignored; by 1887 the cemetery was supposedly so full that bones were littered between graves. The last new grave was dug in 1944, as St Sepulchre's finally stopped accepting new burials in 1945. The gatehouse lodge, which is owned by
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, was let out to tenants, and the chapel was demolished in 1970. In 2004, St Sepulchre's was added to the
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. The cemetery was formerly surrounded on two sides by the Eagle Ironworks, which shut down in 2005 and has since been replaced by apartments. The cemetery is listed Grade II on the
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Notable interments

A number of well-known people who have their own Wikipedia pages are buried in the cemetery, including: *
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, American-British mountain climber *
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, scholar, ecclesiastic, and librarian * Frank Arthur Bellamy, astronomer *
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, academic, antiquarian, and librarian *
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, Master of
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John Cavell John Caldicott Cavell (12 January 1813 – 5 February 1887) was a department store proprietor and mayor of Oxford, England. John Cavell was born in Bardwell, Suffolk, the son of Charles and Sarah Cavell, He married Sarah Elliston of Summertown ...
, proprietor of what was once Oxford's leading department store, Elliston & Cavell, and Mayor of Oxford * Alfred Christopher, clergyman * Martha Combe, art collector and patron *
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, an early Superintendent of the
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and benefactor of St Barnabas Church, both nearby *
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, painter and printmaker *
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, jurist and constitutional theorist *
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, classical scholar * John Farmer, composer, music teacher, and organist *
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, philosopher, political radical, and temperance reformer * John Griffiths, Warden of Wadham College and Keeper of the Oxford University Archives * Alfred Hackman, sub-librarian at the Bodleian Library, Oxford * Marian Rebecca Hughes, first woman to take religious vows in the Anglican church since the Reformation * Herbert Jackson, crammer at the University of Oxford *
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, astronomer *
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and Master of Balliol College *
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, astronomer *
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, first Professor of Russian in Great Britain *
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, theologian *
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, physician * John Henry Parker, archaeologist, writer on architecture, and publisher * Henry Francis Pelham, scholar and historian, and Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford *
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who spent many years in
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and translated many
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texts into
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* Stephen Reay, academic and clergyman, Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford * William Riviere, painter and art educator *
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, Icelandic scholar * John O. Westwood, entomologist and archaeologist


See also

*
Holywell Cemetery Holywell Cemetery lies behind St Cross Church, Oxford, St Cross Church in St Cross Road, Oxford, England, south of Holywell Manor on Manor Road, Oxford, Manor Road and north of Longwall Street, in the parish of Holywell, Oxford, Holywell. Histo ...
*
Osney Cemetery Osney Cemetery (also known as Osney St Mary Cemetery) is a disused Church of England cemetery in Osney, west Oxford, England. Its entrance is in Osney Lane, which runs off the south end of Mill Street, south of Botley Road and near the site of ...
*
Wolvercote Cemetery Wolvercote Cemetery is a cemetery in the parish of Wolvercote and district of Cutteslowe in Oxford, England. Its main entrance is on Banbury Road and it has a side entrance in Five Mile Drive. It has a funeral chapel, public toilets and a small a ...


References


External links


History of St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford with biographies of many of the people buried here

Oxford Guide information


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