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These burial places of British royalty record the known graves of monarchs who have reigned in some part of the British Isles (currently includes only the monarchs of Scotland, England, native princes of Wales to 1283, or monarchs of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom), as well as members of their royal families.
Royal families of Hawaii 2261 Nuuanu Avenue in Honolulu, Hawaii: Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii: Abraham Lincoln: 16th President of the United States Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois: Lincoln's Tomb: William McKinley: 25th President of the United States Canton, Ohio: McKinley Memorial Mausoleum: Leland Stanford: Founder of Stanford University
Queen Victoria's Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore and the Royal Burial Ground (front). The Royal Burial Ground is a cemetery used by the British royal family.Consecrated on 23 October 1928 by the Bishop of Oxford, it is adjacent to the Royal Mausoleum, which was built in 1862 to house the tomb of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Honouring individuals buried in Westminster Abbey has a long tradition. Over 3,300 people are buried or commemorated in the abbey. [1] For much of the abbey's history, most of the people buried there besides monarchs were people with a connection to the church – either ordinary locals or the monks of the abbey itself, who were generally buried without surviving markers. [2]
History of the Royal Burgh of Irvine by John Strawhorn; A Historical Guide to Ayrshire by Dane Love; Stones: a guide to some remarkable eighteenth-century gravestones by Betty Willsher and Doreen Hunter. Edinburgh : Canongate, 1978. East Lothian gravestones by Islay Donaldson. East Lothian District Council, 1991. Midlothian gravestones by Islay ...
A 2006 view of the Royal Mausoleum with the Royal Burial Ground in the foreground. The mausoleum was built by the architect A. J. Humbert, based on designs by Professor Ludwig Gruner. [9] It is in the form of a Greek cross, with a 70 ft diameter, and a central octagon of height 70 ft. It was designed in the Romanesque style.
Effigy and monument to John Gower (c.1330–1408) in Southwark Cathedral, London. A church monument is an architectural or sculptural memorial to a deceased person or persons, located within a Christian church.
Waiola Church and Cemetery in Lāhainā is the site of a historic mission established in 1823 on the island of Maui in Hawaiʻi.Originally called Waineʻe Church until 1953, the cemetery is the final resting place for early members of the royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaii.