The old cemetery was opened in 1849 on a site originally intended for a new parish church.  This soon became full, and in 1871 Romford burial board opened a new cemetery in Crow Lane, Rush Green.1

In 1953 the chapel was demolished and the cemetery laid out as Coronation Gardens.¹

This view from Main Road was taken in 1906.²  Step forwards in time to see how it looks today.

¹ Based on the Victoria History of the County of Essex, volume VII, page 81, by permission of the General Editor.
² Photograph reproduced from, and text based on, Britain in Old Photographs: Romford, page 88, by permission of the author.