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Birmingham Crematorium is a crematorium in the Perry Barr district of Birmingham, England, designed by Frank Osborne and opened in 1903. A columbarium was added in 1928. The crematorium is now owned and operated by Dignity plc. == Opening == Cremation was not declared legal in Great Britain until 1885, by precedent from the trial of William Price. Despite the opening of Woking Crematorium in 1878〔 and the passing of the Cremation Act 1902, which came into effect on 1 April 1903, it remained controversial, on religious grounds, in the first decade of the twentieth century.〔 However, proposals to build a crematorium for the city of Birmingham, the ninth such facility in the United Kingdom,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Birmingham Crematorium commemorates 110th anniversary )〕 received support from Sir Oliver Lodge, Principal of the University of Birmingham, and were given the approval of the three local bishops: Edmund Knox (Coventry), Augustus Legge (Lichfield) and Charles Gore (Worcester)〔 (Birmingham did not have its own bishop until 1905). In a letter read at the opening ceremony, Bishop Gore wrote:〔 Similarly, Bishop Knox wrote that:〔 The ceremony was conducted by Sir Henry Thompson, first president of the Cremation Society of Great Britain. His address, wrote The Lancet:〔 It was his last public duty as the society's president; he died the following year, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.〔 Built on a site previously known as Sheldon Coppice, alongside the A34 (Walsall Road), the Birmingham facility cost £7,000,〔 and had furnaces designed by Messrs. Wilcox & Raikes. The architect was Frank Osborne. A columbarium, detached from the main building, was completed in January 1928. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Birmingham Crematorium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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