Warstone Lane Cemetery in Birmingham, West Midlands

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Birmingham, Metropolitan Borough of Birmingham, West Midlands B18 6NN England

Coordinates: 52.48743, -1.91393
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Warstone Lane Cemetery in Birmingham dates from 1847. It is one of two cemeteries in the city's Jewellery Quarter, in Hockley (the other being Key Hill Cemetery). It is no longer open to new burials. A major feature is the two tiers of catacombs, whose unhealthy vapours led to the Birmingham Cemeteries Act which required that non-interred coffins should be sealed with lead or pitch.

The cemetery chapel erected in 1847, was demolished in 1954. The blue brick gate lodge, designed by Hamilton & Medland and built in 1847-8, still survives. The cemetery was originally reserved for Church of England members, whereas Key Hill Cemetery (opened in 1836) was non-denominational and was therefore favoured by non-conformists.

Warstone Lane Cemetery contains 51 First World War burials and 14 from the Second World War. A Screen Wall commemorates those whose graves are not marked by headstones.

A comprehensive list of memorial inscriptions is being prepared by The Jewellery Quarter Research Group, to be published on its website. A campaign group, The Friends of Key Hill and Warstone Lane Cemeteries, seeks to preserve and protect the cemetery.

Established in 1848. Closed in 1982. The cemetery includes the re-interred remains of those previously buried at Christ Church Churchyard (1897), St. Mary's Churchyard, Whittall Street (1927,1952,1953) and St. Thomas Churchyard, Bath Row (1953).