Saint Sepulchre's Cemetery
Victorian parish cemetery of yew-lined drives, Gothic gate lodge and restored nineteenth-century graves.
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This guide to Saint Sepulchre's Cemetery in Oxford follows John Galpin, a carpenter's son who became twice mayor of the city and one of the speculators behind the villas of North Oxford. It moves through the Victorian building boom, a savings company with a reassuring slogan, and a crowd on Beaumont Street in eighteen eighty-three carrying a figure in alderman's robes. Best heard near the southern end of the cemetery, among the rows of the St Mary Magdalen section.
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