Landscape record 0649800000 - Amersham Cemetery

19th century cemetery enclosed by a red brick wall (B1).
A simple Burial Board Anglican cemetery (1858-59) for a Chiltern market town. It was designed by WF Poulton of the Reading-based architectural firm of Poulton and Woodman as the consecrated one of two burial grounds he laid out in the town, the other for nonconformists, The Platt, being near the chapels off Whielden Street. The 0.55 ha. grid-pattern layout by Poulton, enclosed by a fine and unusual ornamental boundary wall, makes good use of the Chiltern materials, site and setting. It was extended to the present 1.2 ha in the early C20. Poulton and Woodman were Reading-based architects and prolific cemetery designers in the 1850s-70s, their cemetery work including Windsor, St Helier, Jersey, and Guernsey (all 1856) and Aylesbury (1857-58). This is a modest example both of its type and
of their work, without the more usual chapels or lodges, which were dispensed with as it lay
close to the parish church. See report for detail (B2).