• Warstone Lane Cemetery, (grid reference SP059877), also called Brookfields Cemetery, Church of England Cemetery, or Mint Cemetery (from the adjacent Birmingham Mint)...
  • Birmingham (Warstone Lane) Cemetery contains 51 First World War burials and 14 from the Second World War.
  • Warstone Lane Cemetery is one of two cemeteries in the city's Jewellery Quarter, the other being Key Hill Cemetery.
  • Back of medal cast to mark the consecration of the cemetery in 1848 (with thanks to Friends of Key Hill and Warstone Lane Cemetery).
  • Warstone Lane Cemetery was first established in 1848 by a private company, eventually being closed to burials almost 140 years later in 1982.
  • In 2009 Warstone Lane Cemetery was included, combining both the Jewellery Quarter Cemeteries.
  • Warstone Lane Cemetery in Birmingham dates back to 1847 and is one of two cemeteries in the city’s Jewellery Quarter.
  • Warstone Lane Cemetery was established in 1848 as a solution to the overcrowding in the existing burial grounds in the town centre.
  • OS 25" to 1 mile 3rd edition published 1918. Resons for designation. Warstone Lane Cemetery is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons
  • Baskerville died in 1775, long before Warstone Lane Cemetery was built. His body was originally interred in his a small mausoleum on the grounds of his home.
  • Warstone Lane Cemetery in the Jewellery Quarter , Hockley , Birmingham belonged to the Church of England Cemetery Company.
  • The bodies in the vaults were removed and Baskerville’s body was reinterred in the Church of England cemetery in Warstone Lane in a vault under the chapel.
  • The Friends of Key Hill cemetery & Warstone Lane cemetery are the only group whose revenue is for the restoration of damaged and broken graves.