in Stoke-on-Trent

Area
Hanley (Shelton)		 Street
2 Cemetery Road		 Heritage No.
55A		 Grade
II		 Date Listed
15 March 1993
Building:

Cemetery Lodge (North)
Description:

Cemetery (Registrar's) Lodge, 1860, white Brick with stone, plain tile roof.

 


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The Burial Board Committee was set up in October 1857. John Ridgway, the first mayor of the borough of Hanley, was instrumental in its setting up. Land was purchased from the Bishop family, Sir Thomas Boughey and Sir Lawrance Armistead.

Cemetery Road was built for Hanley Borough Council by Mr Durber, along with the drainage and boundary walls for £1808. The Lodge's were designed by Henry Ward and the cemetery opened in May 1860, built at a cost of £13,000.

"For the construction of the chapels and lodges a contract was entered into with Mr J. Clewes, of Hanley at a cost of £2,598.... The principle entrance the the cemetery is on the Stoke road where two lodges have been erected - one for the registrar and one for the head sexton." The Staffordshire Advertiser newspaper 5 May 1860.

There were 32 applications for the position of registrar to which William Spence was appointed at a salary of £80 per annum, with house rent and tax free. He was the registrar until 1879 and was succeeded by Joseph Kent who was in the post until 1916. After his death, Margaret, his daughter was registrar until 1919 but was replaced by a man after the end of The First World War.

 

View of Cemetery Road from Stoke Road
View of Cemetery Road from Stoke Road
on the left is the Sexton's Lodge 
and on the right is the Registrar's House.

 


No 2 Cemetery Road - The Registrar's House

 

1861 census returns:

Shelton Park (Registrars Lodge)

Name Position Status Age Employment Place of Birth
William Spence Head Married 44 Registrar, Hanley Cemetery Scotland, Aberdeen
Emma Spence Wife Married 35   Staffs, B-----?
Edward Spence Son Single 17 Clerk at Cemetery Staffs, B-----?
Anna Spence Daughter Single 14 Scholar Staffs, B-----?

 

 

1891 census returns:

2 Cemetery Road (Registrars Lodge)

Name Position Status Age Employment Place of Birth
Joseph Kent Head Married 46 Cemetery Registrar Staffs, Penkhull
Harriet Kent Wife Married 46   Staffs, S-on-Trent
Margaret Kent Daughter Single 24 Mother's help Staffs, Penkhull
Harriet A Kent Daughter Single 18 Manufacturers Clerk  Staffs, Penkhull
Martha Kent Daughter Single 17 Earthenware factors clerk Staffs, Penkhull
Edgar Baker Kent Son Single 14 County Court Clerk Staffs, Penkhull
Percy James Kent Son Single 12 Scholar Staffs, Penkhull
James Wood Visitor Single 24 Carpenter Salop, Oswestry

 


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photos: Jan 2001

 

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