Silent Sunday Cemetery Scapes ~ Autumnal Colours

Ipswich Old Cemetery, Suffolk

Ipswich Old Cemetery, Suffolk

Saffron Walden Cemetery, Essex

Autumn Glory in Ipswich, Suffolk

Autumn arrived late this year, but it was definitely in it's Glory at the Old Cemetery in Ipswich, Suffolk.

Autumn is simply the best time for visiting this Sleeping Garden.

In the Old Cemetery, two chapels are dwarfed by the grand old tree between them. They appear identical, but the western chapel has a copper spire.

They were built together for the opening of the cemetery by Cooper and Peck, in 1855. The one with the spire was for Anglican use, the one without for the non-conformists ~ you can just see the blue door under the tree. Catholics used the nearby church of St Mary for their funeral Masses before interment here.

High Gothic in appearance, but in a traditionally Suffolk style, using buttressed flint. The non-conformist chapel is now used for storage with the Anglican chapel still being used occasionally. A new Millennium Cemetery, opened in 2000, to the north of the Borough.

 

I made some very interesting finds here too and will post them soon......

Autumn in the Cemetery

I love this large beech tree in the Cemetery in Saffron Walden and often take photos of it as the sunlight plays through its leaves, in autumn it is particularly beautiful. I don't live far away from the cemetery and on some nights can hear the owls hooting that hunt amongst the stones there.