Benches in St John's Wood Church Gardens

Mary Ann Morrison

Sheikh Sleiman Alamuddin CBE

Tahia Alamuddin

Joseph Kenneth Lyons

Saker & Abdulhusen Hardermota

Robert Campion, Parks Manager

Phyllis Mary Arnold

Sophie Simanowitz

Gertrude Macauley 1901-1992

Doris Hilda Brocklehurst 1908-1992

Dorothy Whitcomb

Major H B Freeman MC 1917-1994

Elizabeth Nora Thompson 1911-1995

Catherine Sartain 1906-1995

My Lilach Shy 15 May 2017

The burial ground was used from 1814 to 1855 when the St Marylebone Cemetery was opened.  There are thought to be some 50,000 graves here.

It remains consecrated ground and is now owned by Westminster City Council who administer it as a garden. There are 15 benches in the garden which bear inscriptions.

If anyone knows to whom they refer, please let us know.

The two benches for Tania and Sleiman Alamuddin were donated by my sisters and I. They were our parents.

My mother’s flat was in North Gate and she  and my father  spent happy times in the gardens. That is why my sisters and I decided to donate the benches in their honour. Noura Alamuddin