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New Victorian-Inspired Cemetery To Be Built at Wilbury Hills

By admin on May 18, 2006

The North Hertfordshire district council has comissioned Michael Howe and his architechture firm, Mae, to design a new ‘flagship’ cemetery at Wilbury Hills, on the edge of Letchworth in the UK.

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Saving Graces: The Art of Sensual Statues in Cemeteries

By Ed Snyder on December 16, 2005

On walking through just about any cemetery established after 1850, one is likely to see sensual female figures, carved, or rather released, from a variety of material – granite, marble, bronze. This is principally true in France and England, the birthplaces of “garden cemeteries.” For the uninitiated, garden cemeteries are essentially outdoor sculpture gardens, [...]

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New Victorian-Inspired Cemetery To Be Built at Wilbury Hills

Saving Graces: The Art of Sensual Statues in Cemeteries

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