Frosty morning in Warstone Lane Cemetery

[major_clanger]

We live not far from Warstone Lane Cemetery, one of Birmingham's more notable Victorian burial grounds. It features an impressive selection of gravestones and tombs, as well as - unusually for an English cemetery - catacombs. A few days ago we had a clear, frosty morning so I went for a walk along with cthulie and T who were visiting, in the hope of getting some good pictures. We weren't disappointed.

The catacombs (HDR merge of three pictures):



Frosty headstones:



Leaves, frost and fallen statuary:



Signs around the cemetery note that a lot of the gravestones have become unsafe and so have been laid flat. This makes them even more striking when frost settles:





We also noticed that where now-horizontal gravestones had deeply-recessed carving, it had accumulated leaves, filled with water and frozen:







I'd always thought black marble a little pretentious for monuments but it does frost up very nicely:



Full album here.

Comments

[watervole]

Teh fallen statue makes me thing of Tolkien's headless king.