East Finchley Cemetery is a cemetery and crematorium in East Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet. The facilities are owned and managed by the City of Westminster.[1]
The St Marylebone Burial Board purchased 47 acres (0.19 km2) of Newmarket Farm in 1854;[1] and the cemetery, then known as St Marylebone Cemetery, was laid out by architects Barnet & Brick Ltd. the following year with an Anglican Grade II listed chapel.[2] Principal features are two Lebanon Cedar trees planted on the front lawn. The crematorium was opened in 1937.[1]
Due to local government reorganisation, the cemetery was managed by the Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone – from 1900; and became the responsibility of the City of Westminster in 1965, when the cemetery became known by its current name. The cemetery contains about 22,000 interments; and remains open for burials.[1]
The cemetery was awarded a Green Flag Award in 2007, 2008 and 2009.[1] It is also a Local Nature Reserve.[3]
The nearest London Underground station is East Finchley, on the Northern Line.
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There are 75 Commonwealth burials of World War I in the cemetery. There are a further 79 burials of World War II. There is a Screen Wall memorial, behind the Cross of Sacrifice, recording the names of the 1939-1945 casualties who were cremated.[5]