Holywell Cemetery, Oxford

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Holywell Cemetery in Oxford is a historic Victorian graveyard known for being the final resting place of several notable figures, including author Kenneth Grahame.

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Holywell Cemetery, Oxford canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Victorian cemetery
burial ground
cemetery
adjacentTo St Cross Church, Oxford
St Cross Road, Oxford
country United Kingdom
denomination Anglicanism (broadly)
surface form: Anglican
era Victorian era
hasConservationStatus managed as a wildlife refuge
subject to conservation efforts
hasCoordinateLocation approximate: 51.756°N 1.249°W
hasFeature Victorian funerary monuments
footpaths
gravestones
mature trees
wildlife habitat
hasNotableBurial Arthur Lionel Smith
Benjamin Jowett (memorial only, ashes elsewhere)
Charles Williams (theologian)
Edward Bouverie Pusey
Francis Paget
Henry George Liddell (memorial association)
Henry Nettleship
James Legge
Kenneth Grahame
Max Müller
Thomas Hill Green
William Sanday
members of the Oxford academic community
hasUse Christian burial ground
hasWebsite Friends of Holywell Cemetery website
heritageDesignation Grade II listed
registered historic cemetery
inception 1847
locatedIn England
Holywell area of Oxford
Oxford
Oxfordshire
locatedNear Holywell Street, Oxford
Oxford
surface form: Oxford city centre
maintainedBy Holywell Cemetery Friends
notableFor Victorian funerary art
burial of author Kenneth Grahame
burials of prominent Oxford scholars
historic and ecological value
openToPublic yes
ownedBy Diocese of Oxford
partOf historic cemeteries of Oxford
primaryLanguageOfSignage English

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Kenneth Grahame burialPlace Holywell Cemetery, Oxford
Walter Pater burialPlace Holywell Cemetery, Oxford
Edward Arthur Milne buriedAt Holywell Cemetery, Oxford