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The Magnificent Seven - London's First Landscaped Cemeteries (Paperback)
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The Magnificent Seven - London's First Landscaped Cemeteries (Paperback)
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A ring of spectacular cemeteries, developed at the edges of London
in the decade from 1832, have long been referred to as The
Magnificent Seven. At the time, they set a new aesthetic for the
burial of the dead, and remain rich in social history and beauty to
this day. It was entrepreneurs, rather than the religious
authorities, who responded to the squalor of the City's brimming
churchyards by fi nancing seemly, hygienic concepts of burial in
the rural outskirts, now embraced by inner London. The Seven became
showcases for neoclassical and neo-Gothic architecture, matched by
splendid - sometimes eccentric - memorials recording Victorian
society, and the sweep of London's history to the present day. From
grand Kensal Green in the west to modest Tower Hamlets in the east;
from heady Highgate to charming Norwood and Nunhead; and from the
military influences of Brompton to the Non-conformist woodland of
Abney Park - a host of characters and stories are visited in this
distinctive coverage of the subject.
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