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The Church “Rock” Cemetery, Nottingham
Church Cemetery, known locally as “Rock Cemetery” due to it being built on the site of an old sand mine and around the many sandstone outcrops, is located on the summit of Gallows Hill, a place of public executions until 1827. The quarry’s ready-made holes, nooks, crannies, pits, and caves have been put to use, both for the dead and the living.
Nottingham is a City founded upon a system of ancient, manmade sandstone caves. Beneath its streets are a veritable labyrinth of passages that, if put together, would stretch for miles. There are three main groups of caves - the ‘Papish Holes’ to the southwest, ‘Sneinton Hermitage’ to the southeast, and the caves of Rock Cemetery to the north.
The caves of Rock Cemetery are known as ‘Robin Hood’s Cave’ or ‘Stable’. Tradition states that this cave was used by Robin Hood and his band of outlaws to hide in and stable their horses. This area had also been used for rope making prior to the construction of the cemetery, and there were a few rough buildings on the side of the quarry and in these caves, one of which was used to house chickens. It is also believed that one of the man-made pits was an important site of worship, serving as a 3,000-year-old Druidic temple.
The deepest caves are at the southern end of the cemetery - what has been referred to as the ‘Head of the Temple’. The original Robin Hood’s Cave is situated on the western side, and this cave leads to a complex of tunnels, some of which run over a mile under the City. One of these tunnels travels beneath the site, separating the main graveyard from the ‘pauper’s graves’, which allowed Victorians to discriminate by class, even in death.
Behind the graves and monuments lie a columbarium built into the sandstone walls of the cave, once used to hold the cremated remains of the deceased. Some time ago, a group of vandals came to believe that treasure lay within the niches and systematically smashed through the wall of cremated remains.
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