Going inside Greenwich’s Devonport Mausoleum

A modest brick building in Greenwich is the final resting place of Sir Thomas Hardy and Admiral Lord Hood, and also many ordinary sailors. The Devonport Mausoleum was built around 1750 in a new cemetery in the grounds of the former Devonport Nurses Home, and the cemetery was in use until 1857 as the graveyard of the Royal Hospital for Seamen.It’s thought that some 24,000 people, mostly men but a few women, were buried in the cemetery, but many were later moved in 1875 and 1929 when Nationa