The formerly agricultural area was consecrated in 1882, when the churchyard at St Andrew’s Church was reaching capacity.
No CA
LLHA0147
The formerly agricultural area was consecrated in 1882, when the churchyard at St Andrew’s Church was reaching capacity. This coincides with a rise in the popularity and thus population of Hove. Chapels, a lodge, gateway and boundary walls were constructed, predominantly in flint. The grounds were planted with sycamore, poplar, elm and oak (and later weeping elms in 1890). The area was extended in 1912 (c.3 acres to the west of chapels), and later a large extension was made to the north of Old Shoreham Road. The office building (mess room and store) opposite the lodge was not an original part of the design, but has been designed sympathetically. It matches the materials used in the extension to the lodge. Much of the original layout appears to survive, as well as many varied and often elaborate memorials.
v Aesthetic interest of the designed landscape (which retains much of its original layout), the architectural elements, and of some of the individual memorials. These elements combine to produce a particularly aesthetic landscape appropriate to its use as a place of rest.
ii As a group, the buildings, memorials and landscape combine to make a positive contribution to the area. It provides a secluded space in contrast to the surrounding built-up environment, later retail development and the busy Old Shoreham Road. It predates this surrounding development.
iii Due to its size, and the contrast of this open space with surrounding built development, the cemetery forms a local landmark and waymarker when travelling along Old Shoreham Road.
i Through the survival of the architectural pieces, boundary walls, original landscape design and memorials, the cemetery retains a sense of completeness. ii It still functions as a cemetery/landscape of remembrance
2015
