On the laying out, planting, and managing of cemeteries; and on the improvement of churchyards. With sixty engravings / by J. C. Loudon.

  • John Claudius Loudon
Date:
1843
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the laying out, planting, and managing of cemeteries; and on the improvement of churchyards. With sixty engravings / by J. C. Loudon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    LIST OF ENGRAVINGS. » iR. rage I, 2. Plan explanatory of the Imaginary-Square System of laying out Cemeteries - - _ - . 16, 1? 3. to 10. Plans of Borders of Shrubs or Flowers for Cemeteries 22, 23 1 ]. Plan of the Entrance Lodge to the Tower Hamlets Cemetery - 25 12. Section of a Catacomb - - - - - 26 13. Section of a Brick Grave - ~ - - --27 14. Pedestal resting on an under-ground Pier - - - 28 13. Foundations for Head-stones - - - - - 29 16. Monumental Tally of cast Iron - - - - - 29 17. Plan of a Bed for containing Vaults, Catacombs, Brick Graves, and common Graves - - - - - - 30 18. Cesspool for Cemetery Roads and Walks - - - 30 19. Grave-Boards used in the Nunhead Cemetery - - - 31 20. to 26. Grave-Boards used in the Tower Hamlets Cemetery 32, 33 27. Screw Lever used in the iMusselburgh Burying-Ground - - 34 28. Cemetery Plank Hook - - - - - 34 29, Grave-Box - - - - - - - 33 30, 31. Brick and Tile Edgings to Walks - - - - 38 32. Jukes's Truck-Hearse - - - . - - 38 33. Plan of the Cambridge Cemetery - - - - 36 34. 35. Sections of the Cambridge Cemetery - - - 30 36. 38, 39. Ground Plan, Perspective View, and Section of the Chapel designed for the Cambridge Cemetery - - 38, 39 37. Principal Entrance Lodge designed for the Cambridge Cemetery 39 40. Isometricai View of the Cambridge Cemetery - - - 60 41. Design for a Cemetery on hilly Ground a zincograp/i, to face 66 42. Norwood Cemetery in its present State a zmcograp/i, to face 68 43. Norwood Cemetery, as it would appear if planted with dark- foliaged, fastigiate, and conical Trees a zincogra2)h, to face 69 44. Turkish Cemetery of Pera - - - - - 70 43. Cemetery of Eyub or Ayub, near Constantinople - - 71 46. Cemetery of Hafiz in Persia - - - - - 72 47. Cemetery of the Vale of Tombs in China - - - 73 48. Cemetery near the Yellow River in China - - - 73 49. A Churchyard crowded with Graves, without Walks or Trees - 77 30. The same Churchyard with Walks introduced, and Trees planted 79 31, 32. Monuments in the Dumfries Churchyard - - 83, 84 33. Isometricai View of a Churchyard adapted for an Agricultural Parish - - - - - - - 91 34. Ground Plan of the same - - - - - 93 33. Entrance Lodge to the Newcastle Cemetery - - - 115 56. Roofing Tiles used in the Chapel and Lodge of the Cambridge Cemetery - - - - - - -116 37. Geological Diagram, to show in what description of Substrata Interments may take place without injuring the Water of the Springs - - - - - - -117 58. Idea of a Cemetery Chapel - - - - - 117 39. Idea for carrying off the Mephitic Gas from Catacombs - 118 60. Hand-Bier for Walking Funerals, and for Use within Burying- Grounds - - - - - - - 120 London : Printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square.