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The cemetery and crematorium are still open, although the cemetery is reaching capacity. There are now in excess of 150,000 gravesites and new burials have begun to be placed atop older burials, leaving deep interments undisturbed. This is done very sensitively, involving experts and the family of the deceased (if known).
Today, the Cemetery and Crematorium are non-denominational, but originally there was an Anglican chapel, with a 61 ft (19 m) spire and an unusual round Dissenter's chapel (designed by William Haywood).
There are 722 Commonwealth service personnel of both World Wars commemorated at the cemetery, many buried in a War Graves plot, which has a Cross of Sacrifice and a Screen Wall memorial that lists casualties who are buried in the plot or elsewhere in the cemetery without headstones, besides those cremated at the City of London Crematorium. Many of the soldiers died at the Bethnal Green Military Hospital.
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