apjAied to Public Cemeteries. 



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and the map book, where, from the system of squares being employed, such 

 a book is rendered necessary. In small cemeteries, and in common church- 

 yards, where the sexton is also the clerk and registrar, all the books and 

 other documents will be kept in a strong closet in this room ; but, in large 

 cemeteries managed by a court of directors, the books are kept by a clerk in 

 the cemetery office in the town or district to which it belongs, and only an 

 order book, and the register and map book, or duplicates of them, are kept 

 in the lodge. Fig. 29. is a plan of the lodge and yard at the main entrance of 



Fig. 29. Ground Plan of the Entrance Lodne to the Tower Hamlets Cemetery. 



the City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery ; in which a is the porch ; 

 b, vestibule ; c, committee room ; d, strong closet ; e, gate-keeper's room ; 

 f, bed-room ; g, passage ; h, coals ; i i, water-closets ; k, tool-house ; /, house 

 for planks, tools, carpenter's shop, &c. ; m, coach-house ; n, coal-shed ; and 

 0, yard. The architects of this lodge and cemetery are Messrs. Wyatt and 

 Brandon. The most appropriate cemetery lodge that we know is the one at 

 Newcastle by Mr. Dobson, a figure of which will be hereafter given. Mr. 

 Dobson's lodge can never be mistaken either for an entrance to a public park 

 or to a country residence. 



The other buildings or mural structures belonging to cemeteries are, vaults, 

 catacombs, brick graves, tombs or other monuments, head-stones, foot-stones, 

 cenotaphs, walls, and drains. 



Vaults are commonly made under churches or chapels, but in the large ceme- 

 teries they are also made in the open ground, in deep excavations descended to 

 by stairs, and ranged on each side of a passage or passages, which are lighted 

 through iron gratings on the surface. One of the best examples, on a small 



