Events at Kensal Green
Tickets for special events must be booked in advance. Availability is limited, so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Tours keep to the main paths, but sensible shoes -- and protection from sun or rain as the day demands -- are advisable.
Visitors are politely reminded that Kensal Green is a working cemetery which still conducts funerals daily, and that the bereaved may be visiting the graves of family or friends: those who come tours and events are requested to dress and behave with respect and consideration for all those in the cemetery on the day.
Visitors are welcome to take still photos of monuments and landscape for personal reference. Representatives of the Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery may take photographs of the event which will be used for FoKGC publicity purposes. Visitors are asked to let us know if they do not wish any photograph including a facial image of themselves to be used.
Formal permission is required for commercial photography and the use of models, amateur or professional, and for recording, filming and/or broadcasting of any kind, including webcasting: please contact the General Cemetery Company (www.kensalgreencemetery.com) directly for further information.
For further information and all tours and events enquiries, please contact Irina Porter (Trustee, Tours and Events) via tours@kensalgreen.co.uk
Other Forthcoming Events
FoKGC
No events currently scheduled
Other Forthcoming Events
Mausolea & Monuments Trust
The following events run by the Mausolea and Monument Trust (MMT) may be of interest and can be booked on the MMT wesbite
Lazy Thinking, Lazy Sculpting: Why Contemporary Statues are All So Woeful - 26th November 2025 A further talk on sculpture by Alexander Stoddart, the King’s Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland. With the demise of the teaching of art and art history in most of the art schools in the western world, so it is inevitable that the continued need for sculptural representations of famous people is served by those bereft of any knowledge of style and historic precedent. Accordingly, recent works of statuary seem bound to the photographic source, deserting the fundamental origin of any proper monument in design first and foremost. Many a modern bronze figure may be said to convey a very accurate account of the subject’s likeness, where precious few ever manage a true likeness of a statue of the subject. Professor Stoddart will expand upon the virtual extinction of the statue-sensibility which has so long served the Occident and Orient alike, to be replaced by a brutal and banal realism that smiles, waves, and kicks a football.View details
Lazy Thinking, Lazy Sculpting: Why Contemporary Statues are All So Woeful - ONLINE - 26th November 2025 A live stream of the talk on sculpture by Alexander Stoddart, the King’s Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland.View details
Visit the MMT website for details and to book