St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery

St Mary's Catholic Cemetery

St Mary's Cemetery
Details
Established	1858
Location	Kensal Green, London, England, UK
Country	England
Type	Roman Catholic
Size	29 acres (12 ha)
No. of graves	165,000
Website	Official website

St Mary's Catholic Cemetery is located at Kensal Green in London, and has its own Catholic Chapel. Coordinates: 51°31′41″N 0°14′02″W / 51.528°N 0.234°W / 51.528; -0.234

Established in 1858, the 29 acre (120,000 m²) site was built next door to Kensal Green Cemetery. It is the final resting place for more than 165,000 individuals of the Roman Catholic faith, and features a memorial to Belgian soldiers of the First World War, wounded in combat and evacuated to England, where they died in hospital.

There is also a War Memorial, in the form of a Cross of Sacrifice to the British, Irish, French and Canadian servicemen. It is surrounded by a Screen Wall memorial and a low kerb listing Commonwealth service personnel of both World Wars whose graves in the cemetery could not be marked by headstones. In all, the cemetery contains 208 graves of Commonwealth service personnel of the First World War, and 107 graves of the Second World War. There are also many foreign nationality war graves that include, from First World War, 77 Belgians and six Germans, and from the Second, eight Czechoslovakian and six Polish war graves

Many Irish migrants who came to England during the Great Famine are buried here.