Lincoln’s Burial Grounds: Commemorating the City’s Dead

Lincoln’s Burial Grounds: Commemorating the City’s Dead

The Survey of Lincoln’s volume, published on 2nd December 2023, explores the city’s many churchyards, cemeteries and other burial places. It examines a variety of structures across the city which commemorate Lincoln’s war dead.

Chapters, by a range of different of authors, include the following:

•  Introduction

•  Archaeology and Lincoln’s early cemeteries

•  Roman burials – recent findings

•  A rare Roman timber coffin on Long Leys Road

•  Cemeteries of vanished medieval churches

•  The Churchyard of St Paul-in-the-Bail

•  The lost Jewish cemetery

•  Lincoln Friends’ burial ground

•  Newport cemetery

•  Canwick Road ‘old’ cemetery and buildings

•  Canwick Road ‘new’ cemetery and St Swithin’s cemetery

•  Lincoln`s nineteenth-century campaign veterans remembered

•  The graves of Lincoln’s civilian war dead, 1939-45

•  Memorials to the fallen in Eastgate Cemetery

•  Lincoln’s emergency mortuary during the Second World War

•  World War memorials at Bracebridge, Boultham and St Benedict’s Square

•  Other World War memorials in the city

•  Undertakers

•  A funeral carriage supplier

•  Funerals of notable Lincoln people

•  Cemetery memorials to Lincoln’s mayors, 1850-1900

•  Monumental masons

•  Lincoln’s crematorium

•  Long Leys Road cemetery

•  Renovation of prominent citizens’ graves

•  An undertaker’s viewpoint of changing mores regarding death in 21 st century

Lincoln’s Burial Grounds: Commemorating the City’s Dead

ISBN 978-0-9931263-8-3. Price: £9.50.

For more details, please contact The Survey of Lincoln’s secretary at: solsecretary@gmail.com

Booklet sales: surveyoflincolnsales@gmail.com (Ronald Price)