York Historic Environment Record

Established 1836-7 by the York Public Cemetery Company. Buildings and layout the first by James Pigott Pritchett, who became one of the century’s leading cemetery specialists. JAMES PIGOTT PRITCHETT (architect for buildings; involvement in layout uncertain) Designed the layout and buildings at Fulford Cemetery (York Cemetery; 1836-7), the buildings at Weaste Cemetery, Salford (opened 1857), and was involved with sites at Sudbury, Darlington, St Andrews, Newcastle upon Tyne, Saffron Walden, Boston, Tottenham, Mansfield, Scarborough, Colne, Whitby, and Great Driffield. REASONS FOR DESIGNATION York Cemetery is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * As an early garden cemetery (1836-37) for a provincial city. * For the interest of the landscape design by James Pigott Pritchett, a renowned local architect who later contributed to several other cemetery designs. * For the Grade II* Greek Revival chapel which forms the focus of the layout, between the formally laid out consecrated section and the more informal unconsecrated area. * For the surviving C19 structural planting. * Because the site survives largely complete. * For the local and national social interest expressed in burials and a variety of artistically notable monuments including that of the Terry family, confectioners of York.