Hastings Cemetery
Hastings Cemetery is a cemetery in Hastings, East Sussex, England.
The cemetery was opened on 28 November 1856. The Church of England section was consecrated by Ashurst Gilbert, Bishop of Chichester, followed by a service in All Saints Church.[1]
Hastings Crematorium is located within the cemetery. It was built in 1955, incorporating two Gothic-style burial chapels built in 1856 of local sandstone.[2]
Notable burials
- Major-General Sir Edward Anson (1826–1925), army officer
- Frederick Chamier (1796–1870), Royal Navy officer and writer
- Major-General John Granville Harkness (1831–1900), army officer[3]
- Arthur Foord Hughes (1856–1914), artist[4]
- George Monger (1840–1887)
- W. S. Penley (1851–1912), singer, actor, and comedian
- Sergiusz Piasecki (1901–1964), Belarusian-Polish novelist
- Arthur Banks Skinner (1861–1911), director of the Victoria and Albert Museum[5]
- Anna McNeill Whistler (1804–1881), the subject of the painting Whistler's Mother
- William McNeill Whistler (1836–1900)
War graves
Hastings Cemetery contains the war graves of 176 Commonwealth service personnel (including two unidentified Royal Navy sailors) of World War I and 69 of World War II. Those whose graves could not be individually marked are listed on a Screen Wall Memorial. There are also buried here a Belgian army soldier of World War I and a German soldier and six German airmen of World War II.[6]
References
- "Exploring Hastings Cemetery". Friends Of Hastings Cemetery. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- "Crematorium". friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- "Harkness, John Granville". friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- "Hughes, Arthur Foord". Friends of Hastings Cemetery. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- "BK F01 Arthur Banks Skinner BA FSA". Friends Of Hastings Cemetery. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- "Hastings Cemetery, with list of casualties". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
