On the laying out, planting, and managing of cemeteries; and on the improvement of churchyards. With sixty engravings / by J. C. Loudon.

  • Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843.
Date:
1843
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Credit: On the laying out, planting, and managing of cemeteries; and on the improvement of churchyards. With sixty engravings / by J. C. Loudon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    determined before the roads, walks, and green alleys are fixed on, otherwise there might be a waste of ground. To be convinced of the bad effects of the neglect of surface drainage in a cemetery, it is only necessary to walk on the grass of that at Kensal Green during winter or spring. The first point to be attended to, according to the present system, unless the cemetery should be a small one of only an acre or two, is, to devise a system for throwing the interior into imaginary gquares or paral- lelograms, which shall be indicated by numbers and letters on the boundary fence, and by marks inserted in the ground at their points of intersec- tion. In cemeteries of moderate dimensions, more particularly if the form be rectangular, the marks at the intersections of the squares may be dispensed with ; these intersections being readily ascertained when it is desired to find out the precise situation of any grave, by stretching lines across the cemetery from the letters and figures on the boundary fence. For example, suppose fig. 1. to represent a cemetery of five acres, with the 1 ' . ; A h C D I Fig. 1. Mode of Laying out a Cemetery in imaginary Squares. letters A, B, C, &c., marked at regular distances on the end walls, and figures ], 2, 3, &c., at the same distances on the side walls ; then, by stretching one line from B to B, and another from 2 to 2, the intersections of the strings will give the point B2, C2, &c.: but supposing the surface of the cemetery to be very hilly, or that it is thickly studded with tombs or trees, then, as the lines could not be readily stretched so as to give the points B2, C2, &c., with perfect accuracy, a stone or mark of cast iron is inserted when the ceme- tery is first laid out, in each of the intersecting points, with the letter and figure on it, as shown in the diagram/g. I. at B 2, C 2, D 3, &c. At every other