Wolvercote Cemetery is a
cemetery in the parish of
Wolvercote and district of
Cutteslowe in
Oxford, England. Its main entrance is on
Banbury Road and it has a side entrance in Five Mile Drive. It has a funeral
chapel, public toilets and a small amount of car parking. It was awarded plaques as a category winner of 'Cemetery of the Year' in 1999 and 2001.
The cemetery was opened in 1889 and now contains more than 15,000 burials. Along with the other Oxford public cemeteries it was expected to be full before 2021.[1]
Walter Hooper (1931-2020), secretary to C.S. Lewis and Lewis's literary executor, in which role he wrote Lewis's authorized biography and edited his 3-volume collection of letters, as well as many other posthumously published works by Lewis
J. R. R. Tolkien ("Beren", 1892–1973), author and academic, with his wife
Edith ("Lúthien", 1889–1971) and eldest son John Francis Reuel Tolkien (1917–2003)
^Gilmour, Lauren; Shuffrey, Margaret (2003). J.A. Shuffrey 1857–1939: An Oxford artist's Life Remembered. Rural Publications. p. 53.
ISBN0-9544858-0-7.
Wolvercote Cemetery is a
cemetery in the parish of
Wolvercote and district of
Cutteslowe in
Oxford, England. Its main entrance is on
Banbury Road and it has a side entrance in Five Mile Drive. It has a funeral
chapel, public toilets and a small amount of car parking. It was awarded plaques as a category winner of 'Cemetery of the Year' in 1999 and 2001.
The cemetery was opened in 1889 and now contains more than 15,000 burials. Along with the other Oxford public cemeteries it was expected to be full before 2021.[1]
Walter Hooper (1931-2020), secretary to C.S. Lewis and Lewis's literary executor, in which role he wrote Lewis's authorized biography and edited his 3-volume collection of letters, as well as many other posthumously published works by Lewis
J. R. R. Tolkien ("Beren", 1892–1973), author and academic, with his wife
Edith ("Lúthien", 1889–1971) and eldest son John Francis Reuel Tolkien (1917–2003)
^Gilmour, Lauren; Shuffrey, Margaret (2003). J.A. Shuffrey 1857–1939: An Oxford artist's Life Remembered. Rural Publications. p. 53.
ISBN0-9544858-0-7.