East Finchley Cemetery

Opening times and venue information.

Opening times

Originally called St. Marylebone Cemetery, it was formerly managed by St Marylebone Borough Council. It later became the responsibility of the City of Westminster following the local government reorganisation in 1965.

The name formally changed to East Finchley when the Westminster City Council reacquired the cemetery in the early 1990s.

View a plan of the cemetery:

East Finchley Cemetery landscape plan PDF, 252.64 KB, 1 page

Opening hours

	November to February	March to October
Monday to Friday	November to February 8:30am to 4:30pm	March to October 8:30am to 6pm
Saturdays, Sunday and public holidays	November to February 11am to 4pm	March to October 11am to 6pm
Chapels Monday to Friday	November to February 9am to 4.30pm	March to October

Venue notes

Green Flag accreditation

East Finchley cemetery won its first Green Flag in 2007 and subsequently in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Read the Green Flag judging criteria.

See the management plan:

East Finchley Cemetery management plan PDF, 2.25 MB, 95 pages

Standards at this cemetery are impeccable and it is worth noting that East Finchley was also voted cemetery of the year in 2007.

Parks management

The cemetery is managed by the Parks Service in conjunction with contractors - Continental Landscapes Ltd.

Contact the Parks Service or cemeteries management by telephone 020 8567 0913 or fax 020 8579 1750.

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Address

East End Road
London
N2 0XH
United Kingdom

History

The 47 acres of land comprising East Finchley Cemetery, formerly known as Newmarket farm, were purchased by the St. Marylebone Burial Board in 1854 for the creation of the cemetery. The architects for the cemetery were Barnet and Birch Ltd., who submitted a design for a cemetery in a competition in January 1854 and began their project in May that year. The 2 Cedar of Lebanon trees were planted on the front lawn in 1856.

Up to the present date over 22,000 private grave spaces have been dug within the cemetery with a limited number still available for sale.

Chronology

Date	Events
Date January 1854	Events Architects Barnet and Birch win competition to design new cemetery
Date 1854	Events St. Marylebone Burial Board purchase the 47 acres of land that comprised Newmarket farm.
Date 13 March 1855	Events Bishop of London consecrates cemetery.
Date 14 March 1855	Events First interment in new cemetery.
Date 1856	Events Cedars of Lebanon were planted on the front lawn.
Date 1937	Events Opening of the Crematorium by Councillor G.B. Ramsay.
Date 1965	Events The cemetery was transferred to the City of Westminster under the local Government re-organization.

Famous names and memorials of special Interest

Name	Detail
Name Sir Henry Bishop	Detail Professor of Music at Oxford and operatic composer
Name Leopold Stokowski	Detail Conductor
Name Sir Robert Harmsworth	Detail Newspaper publisher - Lutyen's Memorial
Name Lord Northcliffe	Detail Founder of the Daily Mail
Name Thomas Skarratt Hall	Detail Australian colonist
Name Sir Joseph Chamberlain	Detail Brother of Neville Chamberlain
Name Sir George Hayter	Detail Queen Victoria's principal painter in ordinary.
Name Algernon Borthwick 1st Baron	Detail Glenesk - Memorial chapel and Mausoleum
Name Thomas Henry Huxley	Detail Man of science
Name Heath Robinson	Detail Artist, cartoonist specialising in complicated designs

Soldier's Corner

On Remembrance Avenue there is a small plot of military graves administered by the Commonwealth Graves Commission.

Visit the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Enquiries

Contact name

Parks team

parks@westminster.gov.uk

Published: 25 January 2021

Last updated: 1 March 2021