All Saints Cemetery

Cemetery with a municipal design. First cemetery in Newcastle to be instigated by the Burial Board. The cemetery grounds were divided into wards often defined by avenues of trees. Consecrated in 1855. Opened in 1856. Fine elm tree central to the main entrance viewed through a gabled Gothic archway designed by Benjamin Green {1 and 2}. The Victorian Lodge was replaced in the 20th century. The cemetery was extended to Osborne Avenue, from just under 10 acres by another 1.3 hectares in 1881. A pedestrian gate gives access into the enlarged cemetery. When Carliol Gaol was demolished in 1924 the bodies of executed criminals were transferred into unmarked graves at All Saints. There have been nearly 90,000 burials here. The cemtery is surrounded by cast iron railings with fleur-de-lys heads. Thomas Harrison Hair (1810-1875) the artist best known for his Views of the Collieries of Northumberland and Durham, is buried here in an unmarked grave.