This is organised by the National Federation of Cemetery Friends and is intended to encourage cemeteries to put on events. In its honour, I thought that I would share some of my favourite monuments and memorials from cemeteries that I have visited as a gallery of images.

This is one of the fearsome snakes on the catacomb doors at Brompton cemetery, London. They are modern versions of memento mori.©Carole Tyrrell

This angel is one of four on the Holland monument in London’s Kensal Green cemetery. ©Carole Tyrrell

The sleeping angel on the monument to Mary Nichols, Highgate Cemetery, London ©Carole Tyrrell

and finally, another from Kensal Green cemetery on the Foster headstone.

Photos and text ©Carole Tyrrell unless otherwise stated.