St Giles Cemetery

St Giles cemetery stands at a busy junction in Chester

Out on the east side of Chester is the area known as Spital, so named from the leper hospital that once stood there. Although the hospital was demolished at the time of the Civil War and never rebuilt, the graveyard still stands, despite an attempt by the council to demolish it and put in a roundabout. Fortunately local residents objected with sufficient vigour to cause the council vandals to back down. (Why is it, I wonder, that town councils seem to attract people with the historical sense of a drunken barbarian and the aesthetic taste of something even lower down the evolutionary ladder?)

Anyway, enjoy the film about this most unusual cemetery: most graveyards are in quiet country spots, this one is surrounded by thundering traffic; most are sleepy hollows, this one stands a good five or six feet above its surroundings!