Cemetery Stuff: Extracts from Regulations

Under the carriage arch of my house is a huge engraved tablet called “Extracts from Regulations” which lays out some of the rules of our cemetery.

I don’t know how many of these tablets there are in the U.K. as no searches are turning up any results. It’s amazing to see the table in one piece, considering it would have been erected in 1860 when the cemetery lodge and office ~ now our home ~ was built.

I thought I would share an extract of the Extracts with you, as many of you have been asking for more cemetery stuff:

“Every person who shall wilfully destroy or injure any building wall or fence belonging to the cemetery, or destroy or injure any tree or plant therein, or who shall daub or disfigure any wall thereof, or put up any bill therein, or on any wall thereof, or wilfully destroy, injure or deface any monument, tablet, inscription or gravestone in the cemetery, or do any other wilful damage therein, shall forfeit to the said Burial Board for every such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds.

“And every person who shall play at any game or sport, or discharge firearms, save of a military funeral in the cemetery, or who shall wilfully and unlawfully disturb any persons assembled in the cemetery for the purpose of burying any body therein, who shall be guilty of riotous, violent or indecent behaviour, or who shall commit any nuisance within the cemetery, shall forfeit to the said Burial Board for every such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds.”

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