How effective to make a landscape edge out of the columbarium, and to offer paths both within and without it.
This however has proven to be an unpopular method of burial, part of the unused catacombs have now been converted into columbarium space.
The section under development will provide 5,000 gravesites, including 4,200 pre-placed crypts, 5,000 in-ground cremation sites and 2,000 columbarium niches.
In 1893, a crematorium was added to the cemetery, along with other features like a scattering garden, an indoor columbarium and an outdoor columbarium.
His ashes were interred in the columbarium of the crematorium.
The columbarium's importance stemmed from its having been a source of revenue for the priory as its principal agricultural purpose was the production of fertiliser.
Other options range from columbarium niches to family mausoleums.
The courtyard is a memorial garden and contains a columbarium with 36 niches for the interment of cremated remains.
