Wrexham Cemetery

Wrexham Cemetery
Mynwent Wrecsam (Welsh)
The cemetery's chapel, at its main entrance.
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Details
Established3 July 1876
Location
Offa, Wrexham, Wales
Coordinates53°02′20″N 3°00′22″W / 53.039°N 3.006°W / 53.039; -3.006
TypeCity
StyleGardenesque
Owned byWrexham County Borough Council
Size7.2 ha (18 acres)
No. of graves39,000 (burials)
Websitewrexhamcemeterystories.com
Find a GraveWrexham Cemetery
Official nameWrexham Cemetery
Designated1 February 2022
Reference no.PGW(C)67(WRE)[1]
ListingGrade II
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameLodge to Cemetary
Designated31 January 1994
Reference no.1808[2]
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameGate Piers to Cemetary
Designated31 January 1994
Reference no.1809[3]
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameGate to Cemetary
Designated31 January 1994
Reference no.16485[4]
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameCemetey Chapels
Designated31 January 1994
Reference no.1807[5]
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameMortuary at Wrexham Cemetery
Designated25 June 2020
Reference no.87790[6]

Wrexham Cemetery (Welsh: Mynwent Wrecsam) is a Victorian garden cemetery in Wrexham, North Wales, which served as the main burial site for the city.

It opened in 1876, to the park-like designs of Yeaman Strachan, while its grade II listed chapels and lodge were designed by William Turner. The cemetery was laid out to serve as Wrexham's unofficial first park, while initially arranging graves by social class, now confined to the Victorian section of the cemetery. It contains memorials dedicated to servicemen from the World Wars, with a dedicated Polish servicemen memorial. It was also one of the first sites in Wrexham allowing burials to non-conformists, with it being not directly associated with one established church. The cemetery is listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.

It was extended in 1890 and again by the 1960s, which form its modern (non-Victorian) sections. It underwent a refurbishment in 2016–2018, however has since limited new burial plots due to limited space. A World War II mortuary, only one in North Wales, was only re-discovered on the site in 2019.

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