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Necropolis City of the Dead
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In Victorian Bradford, when death came, there was only one real place to be buried. For the rich and poor alike the newly laid out Undercliffe Cemetery designed by William Gay was the fashionable place to be seen in death. The cemetery, which was conceived by the Bradford Cemetery Company, was provisionally registered in 1849 as a consequence of the intense overcrowding at St Peters parish graveyard, where human bones were seen to be protruding from the graves. The first burial at Undercliffe took place in March 1854, although the official opening did not occur until four months later in August. The grand opening ceremony was officiated by the Bishop of Ripon, who consecrated the western side of the cemetery for the Anglicans. The eastern side remained available for the burial of nonconformists. In life, as in death, status was observed, and the ability to pay determined the location of a grave. In 2013 the cemetery remains as a testament to the lives of the people that forged this city. It is a place where history is quite literally written in granite and stone. The grand mausoleums and tombs are fit for kings and queens, some of which are now of special architectural and historic interest and have been placed on the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens alongside other famous cemeteries such as Highgate. Necropolis City of the Dead explores one of the greatest achievements in Victorian funerary design and accomplishment, and some of the lives that until now have remained hidden under the wilderness of time.
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