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Paines Lane Cemetery

Introduction

The cemetery is walled on two sides with gate piers and iron gates topped with fleur-de-lys and flanking railings, but its low brick boundary wall along Paines Lane has lost its railings. It is laid out with a simple layout of cruciform walks, with no chapel of lodge, and among its trees are yews and a pair of cedars.

Paines Lane Cemetery opened in 1860, a modest cemetery without chapels or lodge and having a simple layout of cruciform walks. It was established here when efforts to enlarge Pinner's parish churchyard to provide burial ground for non-conformists failed. Among those buried here was Admiral Nelson's daughter Horatia. The cemetery was closed to burials in 1924.

Sources consulted:

C Webb revised ed of P Wolfston 'Greater London Cemeteries and Crematoria', Society of Genealogists, 1994; Joanne Verden 'Ten Walks Around Pinner', (The Pinner Association) 1999 ed.

For more information see http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=HRW031

Visitor Access, Directions & Contacts

Access contact details

Nov/Dec: 9am - 4.30pm; Jan-Mar/Oct: 9am - 5.30pm; April/Sept: 9am - 7pm; May-August: 9am - 8pm.

Directions

Tube: Pinner (Metropolitan). Bus: 183, H11, H12, H13 (walk)

Owners

LB Harrow

Other Websites

History

Period

Victorian (1837-1901)

Features & Designations

Designations

  • The National Heritage List for England: Listed Building

  • Reference: Horatia Nelson Ward monument
  • Grade: II
Key Information

Type

Cemetery

Purpose

Cemetery

Principal Building

Cemetery

Period

Victorian (1837-1901)

Survival

Extant

Open to the public

Yes

References

Contributors

  • London Parks and Gardens Trust