The photograph is of one of the two mortuary chapels built in The Old Cemetery. The Old Cemetery was opened in 1856 and we believe the photograph was taken in the late 1860s. The photographer was Alfred S. Fisk of St John’s Street, Woodbridge, who traded there between 1858 and 1894. There were two chapels built, one for Anglicans and the other for Roman Catholics, dissenters and other non-conformists. The Old Cemetery is a notable example of a Victorian garden cemetery.
If you would like to know more about it, one of our recently published Mini History Series is available to purchase from Woodbridge Museum. We plan to produce further booklets in the series but for now the following are available: –
- The Voyages of the Thomas 1854-66 about the ‘billyboy’ that sailed out of Woodbridge
- The Lady Alice Kenlis – the “other ship” at Sutton Hoo
- The Zeppelin Raid, 1915, and The Old Cemetery, Woodbridge.
The illustrated booklets cost £2.50 each, with a discount for “Friends of Woodbridge Museum”.
