Southern Cemetery is a large municipal cemetery in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, 3 miles south of the city centre. It opened in 1879 and is owned and administered by Manchester City Council
Gravestones and memorials in Southern Cemetery
The West Chapel
North Chapel Interior
North Chapel
John Rylands
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John Rylands was an English entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was the owner of the largest textile manufacturing concern in the United Kingdom, and Manchester's first multi-millionaire. He is well k
Southern Cemetery, Manchester
…to be established in the United Kingdom (the first was Woking Crematorium). Manchester's first multi-millionaire, industrialist and philanthropist John Rylands, is buried in the cemetery. The Rylands memorial is the grandest in the cemetery, although part of the original structure was removed circa 1927 and…
John Rylands 1887
Statue of John Rylands by John Cassidy (1899) in the Rylands Library Reading Room
The commemorative plaque at the site of Longford Hall, Stretford, the home of John Rylands
Former Union Baptist Chapel, Edge Lane, Stretford (opened by John Rylands, 1867), later the Rylands Hall, offices of the St Vincent Housing Association