Crossbones Cemetery in London
Cross Bones Graveyard
if you walk down borough High Street into Redcross Way SE1, nearest tube London Bridge or Borough you will come across Cross Bones Graveyard,an uncomsecrated burial ground to prostitutes and paupers including children who lived worked and died in this one poor, lawless enclave in London. THe local prostitutes were known as, Winchester Geese. Prostitutes were not liscenced by local authorities but by the BIshop of Winchester who owned the land. The earliest reference to this Graveyard appeared in the Survey of London 1598.
This area of London was known as, London's pleasure Garden,with legalised bear baiting and Bull fighting the graveyard started to get full.
By the 1850's the graveyard was fill to boiling point and the graveyard was closed due to health concerns there were ideas muted that this place could become a fairground.
In 1992 an excavation was carried out at by the museum of London out of 148 graves excavated 62% were children under five. Reasons for death smallpox, scurvy rickets and tb.
Crossbones Graveyard Vigil
Originally filmed in October 2013 by Zoe Rixon.
Every month a group gathers to pay their respects to the dead of Crossbones, a former paupers burial ground. The site, owned by Transport for London, lay derelict for many years, and was dug up during work on the Jubilee Line Extension in the 1990s.
Writer John Constable initiated the monthly vigils and, with Katy Nicholls, curates the shrine at the gates to which hundreds of Friends of Crossbones have contributed.
For more information go to : crossbones.org.uk
Crossbones Graveyard
A short video of Borough, Southwark in London featuring the graveyard of the 'Winchester Geese'.
Caretaker of Crossbones Graveyard
'The Caretaker of Crossbones Graveyard'
This is an interview with writer John Constable aka John Crow. John is the Caretaker of Crossbones Graveyard in Southwark, South London.
John and friends meet at the Crossbones Graveyard on the 23rd of every month to honour the outcasts living and dead, and you are very welcome to join them.
John says about Crossbones that This is a place of people's history, where it is still very raw and very present, and by connecting with it, I think we live fuller, richer, deeper lives. Particularly living in the inner city as we do, it seems particularly important to feel a sense of connection with where we've come from and where we're going, that is completely fighting against the sense of alienation that runs so deep in the city.
The music at the beginning and end of the video is by Spazrammer aka Laurie French, and is from the forthcoming Triangulators EP 'Beyond the Gates'.
This is the first broadcast from Triangulators TV. There will be more, stay tuned to this news feed for updates.
For more information on the work at Crossbones please go to crossbones.org.uk, or for more from John Constable aka John Crow go to southwarkmysteries.co.uk
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Medieval London | Cross Bones Graveyard
A short walk from Borough High Street on Redcross Way lies the medieval Cross Bones burial ground where around 15,000 outcasts from the Middle Ages and Early Modern period were laid to rest.
Excavations were undertaken in the early 1990s during the Jubilee Line extension.
During the late Middle Ages Bankside was regarded as a place of vice, with its taverns, bear baiting, bull fighting, and prostitution enticing certain folk from the City.
Those buried on this site included young children, paupers, and prostitutes. The latter may have been buried here because they could not be buried on consecrated ground.
The term ‘Winchester Geese’ was used for the prostitutes in the locality because the Bishop of Winchester owned the land on which their ‘stews’ (brothels) stood.
Due to public health concerns the overcrowded graveyard was closed in 1853.
I passed by on cold and wet December morning and the Garden of Remembrance was closed, but here is a link to the website for the Garden and shrine:
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Hidden Graves: London's Forgotten Dead
Short documentary: Crossbones, a consecrated burial ground for prostitutes and children, is under threat of being exhumed by Transport for London. John Constable and an ever growing group of followers, protest in hope of saving the cemetery and the spiritual connection it has with the community.
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John Crow & Crossbones
Since medieval times Cross Bones Graveyard, Southwark has been used as an unconsecrated graveyard for prostitutes and paupers. The Musuem of London has dug up a 148 skeletons of women and children, and estimate that this is only 1% of those buried there. John Constable has been campaigning to stop this land being built on. He holds monthly meetings on the 23 at Cross Bones, Redcross Way, SE1 to help the dead rest in peace. This short documentary follows a shamanic ritual held here in October 2006.
For further details about Cross Bones Graveyard and the campaign to protect the Cross Bones Graveyard Memorial Gates www:crossbones.org.uk
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Timewatch - The Mystery of the Headless Romans. (the whole episode) Skeltons that were found in York uncover some of the mysteries of an event that happened in 208-211AD. As the Romans try to invade and colonize modern day Scotland.
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Ground Ceremony at Cross Bones Graveyard 27 January 2015
This was the ground ceremony enacted by John from the Friends of Cross Bones and Fr Christopher from the Catholic Church ofThe most Precious blood on the 27 of January 2015.
The ceremony was occasioned by the beginning of the work transforming the site own by the transport for London Corporation into an publicly accessible garden, replacing the existing semi-legal garden manned by the Friends of Cross Bones.
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May 23, 2016 Huge Medieval Cemetery Found Under UK College
(May 23, 2016) Huge Medieval Cemetery Found Under UK College
Archaeologists excavating under the Old Divinity School of St John’s College, Cambridge, have discovered one of the largest medieval cemeteries in Britain. The first remains on the site were found during renovations to the college’s Victorian building from 2010 to 2012. The discovery was kept under wraps until 2015, when Cambridge announced that archaeologists had unearthed the intact skeletal remains of 400 individuals, plus the disarticulated remains of close to 1,000 more people. The bodies were interred in the cemetery of the medieval Hospital of St John the Evangelist, the college’s namesake. It was in use between the 13th and 15th centuries and is one of the largest medieval hospital burial grounds ever discovered in Britain.
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Outcasts' Graveyard
Outcasts’ Graveyard by Susan Haire
Soundtrack by Andrea Cavallari
Flute Roberto Fabbriciani
Filmed with the permission of the Bankside Open Spaces Trust
Crossbones Graveyard near London Bridge Station is the site of an old burial ground which was the outcasts’ graveyard for the area formerly known as The Mint, one on London’s poorest and most violent slums. It is thought to be the burial ground for the Winchester Geese, medieval prostitutes earning revenue for and licensed by the Bishop of Winchester to work in the brothels of The Liberty of the Clink which lay outside the law of London. By the time the graveyard closed in 1853 it held the remains of an estimated 15,000 paupers. It is now a shrine at the red iron gates in Redcross Way dedicated to ‘The outcast dead’.
For a number of years Susan Haire has worked with installation, video and photography around the concept of societies who lived in harmony with – rather than at the expense of – nature (Lyall Watson, Lightning Bird) and these hunter-gatherer societies are symbolised in her work by offerings. This video of the Outcasts Graveyard, is a natural progression from trees that Susan has exhibited hung with rags and ribbons that she had saved for years and a series of photographs she has produced entitled A Pocketful of Posies made from bits of litter that she had picked up in the street and put in her pocket.