November is the month dedicated to Holy Souls and a time to pray especially for the dead. As well as contemplating mortality, there is much to interest the visitor to some of Britain’s historic cemeteries
In his 1913 poem, “The Rolling English Road”, G.K. Chesterton wrote: “For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.”In fact, two notable cemeteries are neighbours in north London’s Harrow Road: the larger and better-known Kensal Green, London’s first commercial cemetery, and St Mary’s Catholic Cemetery.St Mary’s is not the country’s largest Catholic Cemetery – 165,000 Catholics rest here, ag
21 November 2013, The Tablet
From NW10 to eternity
A Catholic burial ground
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