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The Overseers having inspected one or two proposed sites at
Brookwood Cemetery for the re-interment of the remains, approved
of one at the junction of St. Andrew's Avenue with an unnamed
avenue which they requested the Company to name St. George the
Martyr Avenue. A Clerk of Works was appointed, and the 2nd
October, 1899, was fixed for commencing the work.
The Churchwardens closed the Churchyard during the time the
remains were being removed, and an order was made that no person
should be admitted to the crypt without a written order signed by two
of the Churchwardens.
When the main portion of the crypt had been cleared to the floor
level, a communication was sent to the Home Office, requesting that
Dr. Hoffman might inspect the same with a view to his saying
whether any further coffins should be removed, as it was found that
should this become necessary, it might be requisite to underpin some
of the walls of the church.
At the request of the Board, the Surveyor at the same time prepared
a plan showing the construction of a concrete arch covered by
a layer of asphalte and faced with granolithic pavement to form a new
floor, so dovetailed into the walls of the church as to form a source of
strength by binding them together.
Dr. Hoffman of the Burial Acts' Office inspected the crypt on the
2nd November and made certain suggestions with regard to trial holes
being opened in the floor to ascertain the depth to which human
remains might be found. After this had been done the Home Office
agreed to the proposal that the floor of the crypt should be cemented
in accordance with the specification prepared by the Surveyor.