Editing Kensal Green Cemetery (section)

===Layout===
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The overall layout is on an east–west axis, with a central path leading to a raised chapel toward the west. The entrance is to the north-east and the largest monuments line the central path to the chapel.

The [[Church of England]] was allotted 39 acres and the remaining 15, clearly separated, acres were given over to [[English Dissenters|Dissenters]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ougs.org/london/event-reports/465/field-trip-the-geology-of-kensal-green-cemetery/|title=Field Trip: The Geology of Kensal Green Cemetery|website=Ougs.org}}</ref> a distinction deemed crucial at the time. Originally there was a division between the Dissenters' part of the cemetery and the [[Anglican]] section. This took the form of a "sunk fence" from the canal to the gate piers on the path. There were also decorative iron gates. The small area designated for non-Anglican burials is approximately oval in shape and was formerly made prominent by a wider central axis path that terminated with the neo-classical chapel with curved [[colonnade]]s. The Anglican Chapel dominates the western section of the cemetery, being raised on a terrace beneath that is an extensive [[catacomb]]; there is a hydraulic [[catafalque]] for lowering coffins into the catacomb.<ref>[http://www.kensalgreencemetery.com/cemetery/index4.html "Dissenters' Chapel"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531133105/http://www.kensalgreencemetery.com/cemetery/index4.html |date=31 May 2016 }}, Kensal Green Cemetery.</ref>

It is still in operation today; burials and cremations take place daily, although cremations are now more common than interments. The cemetery is still run by the General Cemetery Company under its original [[Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom|Act of Parliament]]. This mandates that bodies there may not be exhumed and cremated or the land sold for development. Once the cemetery has exhausted all its interment space and can no longer function as a cemetery, the mandate requires that it shall remain a memorial park. The General Cemetery Company constructed and runs the West London Crematorium within the grounds of the cemetery.

While borrowing from the ideals established at Père Lachaise some years before,<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://heritage.humanists.uk/kensal-green-cemetery/|title = Humanist Heritage: Kensal Green Cemetery|website=Heritage.humanists.uk}}</ref> Kensal Green Cemetery contributed to the design and management basis for many cemetery projects throughout the British Empire of the time. In Australia, for example, the [[Rookwood Cemetery|Necropolis]] at Rookwood (1868) and [[Waverley Cemetery]] (1877), both in [[Sydney]], are noted for their use of the "gardenesque" landscape qualities and importantly self-sustaining management structures championed by the General Cemetery Company.

The cemetery is the burial site of approximately 250,000 individuals in over 65,000 graves,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kensalgreencemetery.com/cemetery/|title=Cemetery – Kensal Green Cemetery|website=Kensalgreencemetry.com|access-date=18 April 2023}}</ref> including upward of 500 members of the British nobility and 970 people listed in the ''[[Dictionary of National Biography]]''. Many monuments, particularly the larger ones, lean precariously as they have settled over time on the underlying London clay.