CITY OF THE DEAD - London's Forgotten Burial Grounds

  • St Pauls Churchyard

Description
  • Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
  • Tickets from £12.00
  • Over 18
  • This event has taken place.
  • Multiple start times (see ticket info)

In the old City of London, behind walls and beyond gateways, lie many forgotten burial grounds. Historian and esoteric London guide ROBERT STEPHENSON will lead a select number of participants around some of the surprising and secret locations where the capital's dead still rest.

Tickets £12 including a 20% donation to Kensal Green Cemetery.

ABOUT THE TOUR GUIDE
Robert Stephenson is a qualified City of London Culture and Heritage guide and a trustee at Kensal Green and Brompton cemeteries. He teaches on London and death studies. Robert is also chairman of the National Federation of Cemetery Friends.

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Tickets/Times
Ticket Event time Cost
City of the Dead - morning ticket
Walking tour ticket
 11:00 - 13:00 £12.00
City of the Dead - afternoon ticket

Afternoon ticket

 14:30 - 16:00 £12.00

Location

Address

St Pauls Churchyard, St Paul's Churchyard, London, EC4M 8AD

Nearest Station

St. Pauls (Tube)

Getting there

Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
This year Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation will be hosting The London Month of the Dead, a series of 36 different events investigating the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents. Events will include a private view of the Museum of London’s bone archive, taxidermy workshops, macabre walking tours and private views and a programme of weekend death salons with talks on subjects ranging from public dissection and body snatching to reincarnation and funereal folklore. Each salon will feature a pair of speakers, authorities in fields such as osteology, forensic pathology and the paranormal, who will offer their own perspectives and insights on mortality in the city. Each year the London Month of the Dead donates 20% of all ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries. In 2017 all of the death salons and concerts will be hosted at the Dissenters and Anglican chapels at Kensal Green. In previous years the month's programme has centered around Brompton Cemetery but the chapel is now undergoing important restoration work, a project the London Month of the Dead is proud to have supported. The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.

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  • Written by Alix

    Rating: 4

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    Visited 1 week ago
    Stunning setting, fascinating talk, and the warming punch was a lovely touch! Two small pieces of feedback: the way this event was titled and described gave some members of my party much more of an impression that it would be about clothing - the historic fashion *worn* to funerals rather than the fashions in which they were conducted and the broader trends they followed. Some of my party also struggled to find the venue; the Kings College signs are confusing if you're from out of town and don't know Guy's Campus well. A sign on the courtyard gates or a map would have been so helpful for those unfamiliar with the area.
  • Written by Cherry

    Rating: 4

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    Visited 1 week ago
    Fascinating talk, really enjoyed.
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