Plaque

Ewer Street burial ground

Inscription

Ewer Street Burial Ground

{On the small information board:}
Site of Ewer Street burial ground
1674 - 1762 Part of Quaker meeting house. 1776 - 1814 In the grounds of Baptist Church. c.1861 Unearthed during the building of Charing Cross railway. 1987 Bones and skulls from hundreds of bodies rediscovered.

Site: Ewer Street burial ground (2 memorials)

SE1, Ewer Street

Current maps show Ewer Street shaped like a T on its side - very unusual. An 1862 map shows an L-shaped Ewer Street (without the northern branch), immediately to the north of the railway, whereas currently the east-west section is to the south of the line. All a good indication of the disruption brought by the railway.

A 1746 map shows the L-shaped "Euers Street" with a "Qu M" in the L's corner, and a "Burying Gr" adjacent, to the west.

The railway line must have used the land occupied by the east-west section of Ewer Street and by the buildings, and burial ground, on its southern side. And a replacement means of travelling east-west was provided by creating a new Ewer Street alongside the line, on the south.

We are pleased to have found the Quaker Meeting House on a map. Presumably the Baptist Church occupied the same site, possibly the same building, and we are disappointed not to have found a picture of it.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Ewer Street burial ground

Subjects commemorated i

Charing Cross Railway Company

IanVisits has reprinted an article from the Illustrated London News about the...

Read More

Ewer Street Burial Ground

St Saviour's Southwark has some good reports describing this burial ground at...

Read More

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Ewer Street burial ground

Also at this site i

Ewer Street bomb shelter

Ewer Street bomb shelter

We found each of these civilian casualties in the CWGC database and the make ...

Read More

Nearby Memorials

Miriam Moses

Miriam Moses

E1, Princelet Street, 17

The ODNB gives her birth year as 1884 not 1886.

1 subject commemorated
Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy - original plaque

Walworth Boy Scouts Tragedy - original plaque

SE15, Linden Grove, Nunhead Cemetery

The plaque is actually a resin copy of the one that was attached to the original memorial for the Walworth Scouts drowned at Leysdown. Th...

11 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Field Marshal Gort

Field Marshal Gort

SW1, Belgrave Square, 34

Field Marshal Viscount Gort VC, 1886 - 1946, Commander in Chief at Dunkirk, lived here, 1920 - 1926. English Heritage

War served | WW1
1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
C. L. R. James

C. L. R. James

SE24, Railton Road, 165-7, Brixton Advice Centre

Both plaques are actually around the corner in Shakespeare Road.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Rowland Bourke VC

Rowland Bourke VC

SW1, Sloane Square

Believed to be the first war memorial erected on a public highway. At first sight just a simple stone cross on a plinth, but the whole ba...

War served | WW1
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator