HomeFamous headstones
Belfast City Cemetery is home to many fine monuments and headstones.
Some are in excellent condition but many have been vandalised or destroyed over the years.
These include:
- a memorial to John Hopkinson of Ramsbottom, England - the first memorial to be built in the cemetery in 1870
- Stelfox monument - an example of Gothic architecture and built in honour of James Stelfox, manager of Belfast Gasworks from
1875 to 1907 - the Cross of Sacrifice - erected in 1927 to commemorate soldiers who died in World War I
- Herdman monument - built in the Egyptian Revivalist style, this memorial also has strong Masonic influences
- the mortuary chapel, built in 1874, and destroyed by fire in 1980
- a memorial screen wall commemorating the 296 World War I graves in the cemetery.
* Images reproduced by kind permission of Tom Hartley. All intellectual property rights reserved.
The reproduction of the images is forbidden without the owner's written permission.
