ST HELENS Cemetery was opened in 1858 with designs for buildings and laying out by Thomas Denville Barry and planting specification by Edward Kemp.
This extended around 1912 to the design of the borough engineer Arthur W Brindley. The site contains a crematorium and a memorial garden.
The site was laid out with two main curving drives, forming a heart shape, with informal paths linking and leading off from the formal heart shaped arrangement.
The principal entrance is from Hard Lane. There are two lodges which are of similar design in coarse stone rubble with two storeys and steeply pitched blue slate roofs. In this same area is a single storey building with an incised stone bearing the inscription Jubilee 1887.
The graves of many notable people are buried in this original area of the cemetery, including members of the Beecham, Gamble, Bishop and Pilkington families. There are plenty of 19th and early 20th century monuments lining the main entrance driveway and within the two halves of the heart.
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