[56270] Nottingham : Rock Cemetery - Sheriff of Nottingham

Church Cemetery (or Rock Cemetery), Mansfield Road, Nottingham.

Samuel Butler (d1896), Alderman, Magistrate & Sheriff.

 

The cemetery was laid out by Edwin Patchitt for the Church Cemetery Company and opened in 1856. Patchitt was a local solicitor and Clerk of the Cemetery Company.

 

The Nottingham Enclosure Act of 1845 allocated 4 acres for the Church Cemetery and the Church Cemetery Company, formed in 1851, added a further 9 acres. The cemetery took several years to build and was not yet finished when it was opened in 1856. The mortuary chapel, since demolished, was added in 1879. The City Council took over responsibility for the cemetery in 1965 and it remains in their ownership.

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