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and stand pipes, mowing machine, and all tools for keeping
the garden in order. The estimated cost of this work to the
Society is £190. Loud Brabazon's Association also furnished
through their Honorary Surveyors, Miss F. R. Wilkinson
and Mr. W.Woodward, plans for the laying out of the Burial
Ground, and of the present position of all the graves, together
with a schedule of the legible names on the tombstones. The
estimates and plans have been deposited with the Diocesan
Registrar of Rochester, annexed to the following petition for
a faculty:—
To the Right Reverend Father in God, Anthony Wilson, by
Divine permission Lord Bishop of Rochester.
The HUMBLE PETITION of the Rector and Churchwardens
of the Parish of St. George, Camberwell,
in the County of Surrey, and the Vestry of St.
Giles, Camberwell, in the said County, and your
Lordship's Diocese.
SHEWETH,
THAT the Parish of St. Giles, Camberwell, is a very
extensive Parish and has now a population of 200,000 persons,
and is divided into 16 ecclesiastical districts or ecclesiastical
parishes, and among them is the said Parish of St. George, which
is densely populated and has no open space, recreation ground,
or ornamental garden for the use of the public.
That the Churchyard of the said Parish Church of St.
George has been closed for all purposes of burial by order of her
Majesty's Privy Council for the last thirty years, and is now a
disused burial ground which needs great alteration and improvement.
As there are not any funds to maintain it in good order
and condition, it is in a neglected and delapidated state. It
possesses few, if any monuments, and the tombstones are in a
bad state, and are in many cases falling to the ground, and
requiring the attention of your Petitioners.