The Canterbury City Cemeteries

Moorefield's Methodist Cemetery, Kingsgrove
(previously known as Belmore then Lakemba).

It is believed to be the oldest cemetery in Canterbury City. The first of over 1155 listed burials was for Emma Lees recorded on 6 January, 1855. The burial records for this cemetery can not be substantiated due to a fire destroying the early burial records in 1905. After the fire, Mr Percy William Cant and Albert W Miller compiled limited records from memory. These records and other surviving cemetery records were referenced for this project.

Plots can no longer be purchased. Canterbury City Council is custodian of this cemetery and people with existing rights can arrange for relatives to be interred.

St Barnabas' Memorial Garden, Punchbowl

Situated in a corner of St Saviour's, Church of England, Punchbowl. In the late 1990s St Barnabas' Church was sold and the ashes of those interred were relocated to St Saviour’s unless relatives chose to inter them elsewhere.

St. Saviour's, Church of England Cemetery, Punchbowl

You may choose to:

• make a virtual tour of the cemetery beginning at the Row A grave No. 1
• choose from the alphabetical links to view photographs of headstones and brief biographical information from the Burial Register and the Historical Society publication about this cemetery
• view the locale of the cemetery
• read some facts and statistical information gathered by Maxine Shaw from headstones in the cemetery, including some of Canterbury's pioneers for an insight into the development of a small section of this community in our City
• view St. Saviour's Church with beautiful stained glass windows

The last cemetery will be available on this site in 2004:

St Paul's Church of England Cemetery, Canterbury.

The first recorded burial was for two day old, Henry Monk on 26^th August, 1860. Burial plots can no longer be purchased in this cemetery and no burials are allowed. Niches can still be purchased in the Columbium.