The title is doing too much work. These five photographs are sandstone and metal relics on a lawn, not a documented Sydney cemetery. There are no rows of headstones, no lychgate, no identifiable parish. What you can actually read is more interesting than a guessed graveyard.
One circular plaque is explicit: a building was opened by Her Excellency Lady Stonehaven on 5 May 1926. Ethel, Lady Stonehaven, wife of Governor-General Lord Stonehaven, spent that autumn opening wings and halls; this stone belongs to a civic opening, not a burial. Beside it sit a weathered shield marked V / 1924, another stone cut with 1924, a mushroom-shaped pier, and a broken length of carved sandstone with vine ornament — demolition salvage or garden ornament, not a plot plan.
Until a site is matched, leave the pin off the map. Do not fold this set into Devonshire Street, St Jude’s or Rookwood just because the folder said cemetery. If the Lady Stonehaven building turns up in a later pass, that is when this post gets a real name.
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