Vineyard Passage Burial Ground

Vineyard Passage Burial Ground is a cemetery on Vineyard Passage in Richmond in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Established in 1790 and consecrated in 1791, it was enlarged in 1823. The last burials were in 1874. Managed by Richmond upon Thames Council and maintained by volunteers from the Environment Trust for Richmond upon Thames, it is now a garden of rest.

Notable burials Thomas Cundy (senior) (1765–1825), English architect and his wife Mary (née Hubert). The monument to them is Grade II listed. Jacques Mallet du Pan (1749–1800), French historian and journalist. He took up the Royalist cause during the French Revolution. John Moore (1729–1802), a Scottish physician and travel author who also edited the works of Tobias Smollett. James Stephen Rigaud, English astronomer (b.1726)

Listing The brick walls to the cemetery (forming the side of Vineyard Passage) and the 19th-century iron railings are Grade II listed.

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Vineyard Passage Burial Ground

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