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stormdogI've uploaded 50 pictures from Westminster Burial Ground!
Westminster Burial Yard had its first interment in 1788. As a traditional 18th century burial yard, it seems very out of place in the modern world.
A small churchyard surrounding in the middle of an urban area, graves and crypts are strewn haphazardly around within the walled confines. A brick walking path wanders between and among plots. In one place, it narrows to perhaps two feet, squeezing between structures. At another, one monument stone juts halfway across the path, and another is embedded in the middle of the walk.
Around the back, an extension of the church has been built on raised columns, holding it some four feet off the ground. Underneath it are yet more gravestones next to another crypt, all with metal pipes and a dark brick cieling running just overhead.
Westminster is most famous for being the burial place of Edgar Allen Poe, famous poet and author of short stories.
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Westminster Burial Yard had its first interment in 1788. As a traditional 18th century burial yard, it seems very out of place in the modern world.
A small churchyard surrounding in the middle of an urban area, graves and crypts are strewn haphazardly around within the walled confines. A brick walking path wanders between and among plots. In one place, it narrows to perhaps two feet, squeezing between structures. At another, one monument stone juts halfway across the path, and another is embedded in the middle of the walk.
Around the back, an extension of the church has been built on raised columns, holding it some four feet off the ground. Underneath it are yet more gravestones next to another crypt, all with metal pipes and a dark brick cieling running just overhead.
Westminster is most famous for being the burial place of Edgar Allen Poe, famous poet and author of short stories.
More photos
