Putney Lower Common Cemetery

[4] The chapel building, lodge on the south east corner and brick boundary wall were designed by Barnett and Birch and built by W and R Aviss, who also have a family tomb on the site.

[8] In 2017 they raised money with a concert at The Half Moon pub for restoration work to be carried out on the chapel building which was in a dilapidated state.

[13] The cemetery also includes the graves of sculpturer Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807–1894) who designed and sculpted the dinosaurs in Crystal Palace Park,[14] the historian Louis Charles Alexander (1839–1913) who was editor of The Autobiography of Shakespeare – A Fragment in 1911[15] and involved in the founding of the Royal Historical Society in 1868,[16] cricketer and barrister Sir Alfred Dryden (1821–1912) who was a descendant of poet John Dryden, merchant banker John Frederick Flemmich (1819–1892) who was in business with German art collector Frederick Huth, and solicitor and property developer Henry Scarth (1802–70) who built The Arab Boy[17] and the former Quill[18] pubs and the residential Parkfields area in Putney.

[19][20] There are several mature trees in the cemetery and the tombstones provide habitats for mosses, lichens and stonecrops.

[21] Hedgehog tunnels were added to the boundary walls in 2021, these enable the animals to roam around the cemetery and surrounding commons and help increase their chance of reproducing.