St Woolos Cemetery, Newport 19 August 2013
Another finely executed relief. The lamp on the column to the left behind the angel can represent knowledge, a love of learning, and/or the immortality of the Spirit.
By the first half of the 19th Century, the churchyard around St Woolos Cathedral was overcrowded, noisome and unhealthy with broken coffins and bodies showing above the ground. Land was obtained from the Tredegar Estate for a municipal cemetery, and the first interment was in July 1854, making St Woolos the oldest public cemetery in Britain. Despite government legislation governing such public cemeteries, Roman Catholics were excluded for some time from the cemetery. The cemetery has been used for a Dr Who location.
St Woolos Cemetery, Newport 19 August 2013
Another finely executed relief. The lamp on the column to the left behind the angel can represent knowledge, a love of learning, and/or the immortality of the Spirit.
By the first half of the 19th Century, the churchyard around St Woolos Cathedral was overcrowded, noisome and unhealthy with broken coffins and bodies showing above the ground. Land was obtained from the Tredegar Estate for a municipal cemetery, and the first interment was in July 1854, making St Woolos the oldest public cemetery in Britain. Despite government legislation governing such public cemeteries, Roman Catholics were excluded for some time from the cemetery. The cemetery has been used for a Dr Who location.