Established 1859 Country Wales Website Cathays Cemetery Founded 1859 Owner City of Cardiff Council | Location Cathays, Cardiff Owned by Cardiff Council Find a Grave Cathays Cemetery Phone +44 29 2062 3294 | |
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Address Fairoak Road, Cardiff CF24 4PY, United Kingdom Hours Closing soon · 9AM–5:45PMMonday9AM–5:45PMTuesday9AM–5:45PMWednesday9AM–5:45PMThursday9AM–5:45PMFriday9AM–5:45PMSaturdayClosedSundayClosed Burials Jacques Vaillant de Guélis, William Galloway, Micí Mac Gabhann, William Tatem, 1st Baron Glanely Similar Thornhill Cemetery & Cardiff, Western Cemetery, Pantmawr Cemetery, Glamorgan Archives, Glyntaff Crematori | ||
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The Cathays Cemetery is one of the main cemeteries of Cardiff, Wales. It is in the Cathays district of the city, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Cardiff city centre. At 110 acres it is the third largest cemetery in the United Kingdom.
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History
The cemetery was opened in 1859 and originally had two chapels: one Anglican and the other non-conformist, and each including its own porte-cochère. The cemetery has a Roman Catholic section, where a Roman Catholic chapel was built later.
In the Second World War, air raids damaged Cathays Cemetery with a number of bombs and an aerial mine.
In the 20th century all three chapels were neglected and in the 1980s the Roman Catholic one was demolished. Since 2008 the Anglican and non-conformist chapels have been undergoing restoration. The chapels, as well as the cemetery gateway and forecourt walls, are Grade II listed buildings.
One of the most imposing memorials is that of Frank Baselow, thought to be a result of Baselow's European heritage (his actual name was Franz) and the taste on the Continent for grand memorials.
War graves
The cemetery has a Commonwealth War Graves (CWGC) section, marked by a Cross of Sacrifice made to the standard design devised by Reginald Blomfield. The section was established in the First World War, when Cardiff's nearby main hospitals treated numerous servicemen who had been wounded in action, or who contracted influenza in the 1918–19 influenza pandemic.
The war graves section includes a number of graves of Australian and Canadian servicemen, one New Zealander who died while serving in the Royal Defence Corps, and one soldier of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment. Also present is the grave of Jacques Vaillant de Guélis, a Special Operations Executive agent.
The cemetery includes the graves of 21 French Navy sailors from the First World War, mostly are in the Roman Catholic section, and a similar number of Norwegian sailors from the Second.
Elsewhere in the cemetery are numerous other Commonwealth War Graves from both the First and Second World Wars. The cemetery contains in all the graves of 685 service personnel that are registered and maintained by the CWGC.