Cemetery and Crematorium records

We maintain a number of closed cemeteries, which involves:

• cutting grass

• making safe any loose or fallen gravestones

• cleaning graffiti

• general maintenance            

The closed cemeteries that we maintain are:

• Holy Trinity, Springfield

• New London Road Cemetery

• Rectory Lane Churchyard

• St John's Churchyard, Moulsham Street

• St Mary's Churchyard, Great Baddow

• St Mary's Churchyard, Widford

• The Cathedral Church of St Mary, St Peter and St Cedd

We hold some records for the burials at the New London Road Cemetery. For information on burials in other cemeteries, you need to contact the Essex Records Office.

We are responsible for maintaining:

• the Hoffmann Memorial, in Writtle Road Cemetery

• the memorial in front of the Civic Centre, in Duke Street

• the memorial in Bell Meadow, next to Bellmead

The local parish or town council are responsible for maintaining any other war memorials in the Chelmsford area.

If you have any enquires about the war memorials that we maintain, contact us.

Chelmsford War Memorials holds details of military personnel and civilians with Chelmsford connections who lost their lives in:

• the First World War (1914 to 1918)

• the Second World War (1939 to 1945)

• operations in Afghanistan (2004 to 2014)