Location
1 Simeon Street (turn off Roker Street), Somerfield, Christchurch 8024
- Brief history
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Cemetery Plot Map [279KB PDF]
This map was created by Christchurch City Council and gives a general reference to where a person is buried. -
Sydenham Cemetery Plans in Canterbury Stories
A collection of 23 sheets of plot plans. More information on Canterbury Stories about Sydenham Cemetery - Interments are listed in the Christchurch City Council Cemeteries Database.
- Sydenham Cemetery Tour Guide [294KB PDF]
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Transcription of headstones by the New Zealand Society of Genealogists, Canterbury branch
Guide based on cemetery tours that take place as part of the annual Christchurch Heritage Festival. The guides are from the research and notes of Richard L. N. Greenaway. - Christchurch City Council webpage for Sydenham Cemetery
Brief History
Sydenham Cemetery was opened in 1896 but still has room for new burials. It is typical of older style cemeteries, featuring mostly large memorials with concrete surrounds, but it also allows for standard upright memorials and plaques on beams on the newer area.
The cemetery is now full except for burials in pre-purchased plots. Ash plots are available for pre-purchase. An ashes and full interment area has been developed on the site of the old Sexton's house.
There are a number of unmarked graves in Sydenham Cemetery, mostly patients of the former Sunnyside Hospital and there is a brief information panel outlining the cemetery’s history regarding this institution.