London Cemeteries

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For early monuments (up through 1700) inside London churches, see:


 * Payne Fisher and G. Blacker Morgan, Catalogue of the Tombs in the Churches of the City of London, A.D. 1666 (1668; reprint, London: Hasell, Watson, Viney, Ld., 1885). Digitized by Internet Archive.

The Churchyard Inscriptions of the City of London (1910) is also available online.


 * "A Bibliography of Monumental Inscriptions in the City and County of London," Genealogists' Magazine, Vol. 5 (1929-1931):406-408; Vol. 6 (1932-1934):22-23, 68-69, 107-109, 285, 439-441, 503 and 561.

In addition to the city churches, other popular burial grounds in medieval and early modern London included:


 * Austin Friars
 * Crutched Friars
 * Mercer's Chapel
 * Rolls Chapel
 * St Anthony's Hospital
 * St Mary Magdalen Guildhall
 * Whitefriars

For a modern guide to London's burial grounds, see:


 * Wolfson, Patricia S. and Cliff Webb. Greater London Cemeteries and Crematoria. London: Society of Genealogists Enterprises Ltd., c2005, 2007..

Websites

 * Deceased Online. Includes London Borough of Brent, London Borough of Camden, London Borough of Havering, London Borough of Islington, and London Borough of Merton monumental inscriptions.
 * The London Burial Grounds. History, cemetery photographs. David Orme took an 1897 description of the city church cemeteries and updated it with additional sources and modern observations.