Golders Green Crematorium
Park · Golders Green, England
Golders Green Crematorium is at 62 Hoop Lane, NW11 7NL, and its grounds are a Grade I registered park and garden, NHLE 1001575, recorded by Historic England at 4.56 hectares. The operator states that the Memorial Gardens are open 365 days a year from 9.00am to 5.00pm.
History
The grounds were registered at Grade I on 9 January 2002 as list entry 1001575. The crematorium building is a separate Grade II listed entry, NHLE 1064865, listed 19 March 1981, and the boundary wall with its attached memorials and gates is Grade II, NHLE 1064769; the Mausoleum to the Philipson Family is Grade II*, NHLE 1064788, and the Martin Smith Mausoleum Grade II, NHLE 1064770. The land was bought in 1900 for £6,000 and the crematorium opened in 1902 under Sir Henry Thompson, founder of the Cremation Society. Directly opposite on Hoop Lane, the Hoop Lane Jewish Cemetery is a Grade II registered park and garden, NHLE 1465310, registered 11 December 2020, at 3.19 hectares. Golders Green Underground Station, on the Northern line, is 533 m away and Brent Cross 1,427 m.
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62 Hoop Lane, Golders Green, London NW11 7NL