City of London Cemetery and Crematorium - Reburial and Memorials

Reburial and Memorials

The Union of Benefices Act 1860 allowed for the demolition of many unused City churches, and for the reinterment of the remains in the City of London Cemetery. The cemetery also contains inhumations from London churches destroyed during the Blitz.

• St Benet Gracechurch (1865)
• All Hallows Staining (1870)
• St Andrew and St Sepulchre (1871), this Grade II listed grand monument was designed by Haywood
• St Mary Somerset (1871)
• Holy Trinity the Less (1872)
• St Mildred, Poultry, the church was demolished in 1872, the parish was joined with St Olave
• St James Duke's Place (1874)
• St Martin Outwich (1874)
• St Antholin, Watling Street (1875)
• All Hallows Bread Street (1878)
• St Dionis Backchurch (1878)
• St Matthew Friday Street (1884)
• St Olave (1887)
• St Helen's Bishopsgate (1892)
• St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street, destroyed by a fire in 1886 and demolished in 1893
• St Mary Woolnoth (between 1897–1900), the contents of the crypt were moved here because of the construction of the Bank Station under the church.
• St Peter le Poer, the church was demolished in 1907, the parish was joined with St Michael, Cornhill
• St Alphage London Wall (1924)
• St Katherine Coleman (1925)
• All Hallows Lombard Street (1939)
• Holy Trinity, Minories (1940)
• St Alban, Wood Street (1940)
• St Mary Aldermanbury (1940), the church was rebuilt in Fulton, Missouri, USoA, in 1966
• St Botolph's Aldgate, the remains of around 2,500 persons were moved here when the north part of the churchyard was cleared in 1965
• St Michael Queenhithe, the church was demolished in 1876, reinterment took place in 1969
• St Michael, Cornhill, reinterment from the churchyard (date unknown)

Some churches were destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and never rebuilt due to the Rebuilding Act. Many were joined with other parishes. Their churchyards were either left, moved to a new location or to this cemetery (sometimes at a later date). Among these were:

• St Dionis Backchurch
• St John the Evangelist, Watling Street, the churchyard was cleared in 1954
• St John Zachary
• St Leonard, Eastcheap, the churchyard on Fish Street Hill was cleared in 1882
• St Martin Pomary
• St Martin Vintry
• St Mary Colechurch
• St Mary Woolchurch Haw, the churchyard was cleared in 1892
• St Peter, Paul's Wharf

And of course:

• French Hospital memorial