London Month of the Dead - Cemetery of All Souls

THE DEPTHS BELOW A Guided Tour of the Long-Sealed Catacombs Beneath Kensal Green’s Anglican Chapel with Robert Stephenson Sunday 5th October 2025 at 11:00 am Due to the nature of the site, all visitors must sign a waiver acknowledging the risks of entry. Access is strictly limited, and you will be entering entirely at your own peril. For the first time in over a decade, the catacombs beneath the Anglican Chapel at Kensal Green Cemetery will be opened for a guided tour. These subterranean vaults, long sealed from public view, are steeped in mystery and silent with the memory of those interred within. Kensal Green Cemetery, consecrated in 1833, was the very first of London’s Magnificent Seven garden cemeteries, founded to bring dignity and design to burial grounds at a time when the capital’s churchyards were overflowing. Today, the cemetery is a Grade I listed site, home to around 65,000 graves, 140 listed monuments, and a beguiling landscape of tumbled tombstones, overgrown paths and majestic trees that lend it a romantic, melancholic beauty. Now, for the bold and the curious, we invite you to explore the crypt beneath the Anglican Chapel, an underworld of vaulted chambers and shadowy corridors. Please note: • Visitors will be required to sign a disclaimer before entry. • Not suitable for those with mobility issues or severe claustrophobia. • Flat shoes and torches are strongly recommended. Tickets £15. Please click here to purchase. Robert Stephenson is a qualified City of London Culture and Heritage guide and a trustee at Kensal Green and Brompton cemeteries. He teaches on London and death studies. Robert is also chairman of the National Federation of Cemetery Friends.

THE DEPTHS BELOW
A Guided Tour of the Long-Sealed Catacombs Beneath Kensal Green’s Anglican Chapel with Robert Stephenson
Sunday 5th October 2025 at 11:00 am

Due to the nature of the site, all visitors must sign a waiver acknowledging the risks of entry. Access is strictly limited, and you will be entering entirely at your own peril.

For the first time in over a decade, the catacombs beneath the Anglican Chapel at Kensal Green Cemetery will be opened for a guided tour. These subterranean vaults, long sealed from public view, are steeped in mystery and silent with the memory of those interred within.

Kensal Green Cemetery, consecrated in 1833, was the very first of London’s Magnificent Seven garden cemeteries, founded to bring dignity and design to burial grounds at a time when the capital’s churchyards were overflowing. Today, the cemetery is a Grade I listed site, home to around 65,000 graves, 140 listed monuments, and a beguiling landscape of tumbled tombstones, overgrown paths and majestic trees that lend it a romantic, melancholic beauty.

Now, for the bold and the curious, we invite you to explore the crypt beneath the Anglican Chapel, an underworld of vaulted chambers and shadowy corridors.

Please note:
• Visitors will be required to sign a disclaimer before entry.
• Not suitable for those with mobility issues or severe claustrophobia.
• Flat shoes and torches are strongly recommended.

Tickets £15. Please click here to purchase.

Robert Stephenson is a qualified City of London Culture and Heritage guide and a trustee at Kensal Green and Brompton cemeteries. He teaches on London and death studies. Robert is also chairman of the National Federation of Cemetery Friends.

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