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unusual facts about churchyard



Aaron Buzacott

Her sisters also married missionaries, and her brother, Mr George Hitchcock, a friend and neighbour of Samuel Morley's at St Paul's Churchyard, became noted for his support of Congregationalism and his support for the nascent Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA).

All Saints Church, Wraxall

The large churchyard contains several monuments to the Gibbs family which owned the nearby Tyntesfield Estate, which has recently been purchased by the National Trust following the death of Baron Wraxall.

Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon

She died in Lambeth, and was later buried with her father at Saint Nicholas Churchyard in Arundel.

Amon Wilds

Amon Wilds died at the age of 71 on 12 September 1833 and is buried in the churchyard at St Nicholas' Church, Brighton.

Antonio Luna

He was hurriedly buried in the churchyard, after which Aguinaldo relieved Luna's officers and men from the field, including General Venacio Concepción, whose headquarters in Angeles, Pampanga, Aguinaldo besieged the same day Luna was assassinated.

Ario Pardee, Jr.

He was buried in the churchyard of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.

Benjamin Truman

Truman was buried in the Churchyard of St Mary's, Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire.

Bernard Darwin

Members of the Darwin family who are also buried in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Downe, Kent are: Bernard Darwin and his wife Elinor Monsell; Charles Waring Darwin; Elizabeth Darwin; Emma Darwin, Charles Darwin's wife; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Mary Eleanor Darwin; Henrietta Etty Darwin, later Litchfield.

Blidworth

According to legend, Will Scarlet is buried in the churchyard of the Church of St. Mary of the Purification.

Breadsall


The church of All Saints has a very fine war memorial in the style of a Celtic cross within the churchyard, commemorating fourteen men who died during the First World War and nine men and one woman who lost their lives during the Second World War.

Caerau Hillfort

St Mary’s church probably dates to the 13th century, and is set within an oval churchyard.

Charles Eamer Kempe

Kempe died in 1907 and is buried in the churchyard at St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean.

Charles Smith Bird

He died at the Chancery, aged 67, and was buried in the churchyard at Riseholme.

Chesterton, Oxfordshire

Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Alderson (1859-1927), son-in-law of a former Vicar, is buried in the churchyard.

Dommartin-Lettrée

The church is to be found in a central position in the village and the Commonwealth war graves of five airmen of the Royal Air Force and two of the Royal Canadian Air Force lie in the churchyard immediately behind the church.

Edensor

The churchyard also contains three Commonwealth service war graves of World War I: a British soldier, a British sailor and a Canadian Army officer.

Finstock

The novelist Barbara Pym lived at Finstock after her retirement and is buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity.

Florence Earle Coates

She is buried at the Church of the Redeemer churchyard in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania alongside her husband and her brother George Howard Earle, Jr. and many of his descendants, including his son, former Pennsylvania Governor, George Howard Earle III—Florence's nephew.

Francis McLaren

McLaren died on 30 August 1917, following a flying accident during training at RAF Montrose and is buried in Busbridge churchyard, Surrey.

François Mingaud

He died in 1847 and his grave is in the churchyard at Kralingen-Crooswijk, a suburb of Rotterdam.

Freeman H. Morse

His interment was in the parish churchyard of St. Mary’s in Long Ditton, England.

Great Haseley

The churchyard contains one war grave from World War II, of Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Muirhead, the first British Member of Parliament to die serving in the war.

Hathersage

Stones in the churchyard mark what is known as the grave of Little John, where in 1780 James Shuttleworth claims to have unearthed a thigh bone measuring 72.39 cm.

Henry Lonsdale

He died on 23 July 1876, and was buried on the 27th in Stanwix churchyard.

Henry Maudslay

He was buried in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalen Woolwich; he designed the memorial located in its Lady Chapel.

Hit the ball twice

In 1622, several parishioners of Boxgrove, near Chichester in West Sussex, were prosecuted for playing cricket in a churchyard on Sunday 5 May.

Joe Harriott

He died of cancer on 2 January 1973, and is buried in Bitterne churchyard, in Southampton.

Joseph Finch Fenn

He died on 22 July 1884, and was buried in his family vault in the churchyard of Leckhampton, near Cheltenham.

Mersey Chambers

It fronts St. Nicholas' churchyard, which was laid out as a public garden in 1891 in memory of James Harrison, a partner in the company.

Michael Linning Melville

Michael Linning Melville and his wife Elizabeth both died in 1876 and are buried in the old churchyard at Dartington Hall in South Devonshire, England.

Oxford Canal

In the churchyard in Newbold-on-Avon remains can be seen of the original tunnel dating from the 1770s.

Pearl Hackney

She died in Herne Bay, Kent on 18 September 2009 and is buried with her husband in the churchyard of St. Mary's Stalisfield.

RAF Glatton

The 457th Bomb Group has a memorial dedicated to the men who lost their lives flying from Glatton in All Saints Church Conington churchyard.

Scarning

In 1894 the tower was restored, the nave buttresses were entirely rebuilt and new churchyard gates were fitted - all at the expense of Dr Augustus Jessopp.

Sevenhampton, Wiltshire

Sevenhampton is the burial site of James Bond author Ian Fleming, whose grave is marked by an obelisk in the churchyard.

Sir Baldwin Leighton, 7th Baronet

Leighton died at Norton Hall, near Daventry, Northamptonshire on 26 January 1871 aged 65, and was buried in Loton Park's parish churchyard of St Michael, Alberbury.

Sir Samuel Fludyer, 1st Baronet

Fludyer died in 1768 and was buried in the churchyard of St Margaret's, Lee.

Sir Thomas Myddelton, 2nd Baronet

(She Died in childberth aged 22 in 1675.He sent to Weston for her portrait so that the sculptor, Bushell,in Chester could make a monument to her.The monument is in Chirk churchyard,the portraite never came back to Weston and is still missing!)and secondly Charlotte Bridgeman, daughter of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet.

St Andrew's Church, Sonning

Also adjoining the churchyard is Deanery Gardens, an early 20th-century Edwin Lutyens house with a Gertrude Jekyll garden, well hidden by high walls apart from a good view from the top of the church tower.

St Edward King and Martyr, Cambridge

It is surrounded on three sides by its namesake pedestrian alleyway, St Edward's Passage, whose 'Y-shaped' form has remained unchanged since at least the sixteenth century, and only possesses a tiny churchyard.

St Leonard's Church, Aldrington

The ashes of actor C. Aubrey Smith are interred in his mother's grave in the churchyard of St Leonard's.

St Margaret's Church, West Hoathly

An ancient Sussex custom, also encountered at a few other churches nearby (such as those at Lindfield and Ardingly), applied for many years at West Hoathly: every landowner in the parish was responsible for the upkeep of a specific section of the churchyard wall.

St Mary's Church, Chastleton

Other notable burials in the churchyard include those of Alan Clutton-Brock of Chastleton House, Newbury Racecourse manager Geoffrey Freer and C.L.T. Walwyn, father of racehorse trainer Peter Walwyn.

St. Peter's Church, Woolton, Liverpool

In the churchyard of St Peter's is the grave of Eleanor Rigby, who became the subject for one of The Beatles' songs.

The Silent Village

The men, defiantly singing "Land of Our Fathers" as they go, are lined up against the wall of the village churchyard.

Thomas Pelham Dale

He died on 19 April 1892 (on the eleventh anniversary of the death of Disraeli (one of the architects of the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874)) and was buried in Sausthorpe churchyard.

Tyldesley Coal Company

Some of the victims are buried in the churchyard at St George's Church.

William Lethaby

He was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's Church at Hartley Wintney in Hampshire.

Worth Matravers

The tombs of Benjamin Jesty, a farmer who is reported to have vaccinated his family against Smallpox having made the same observations as Edward Jenner and a while earlier, but kept quiet about it, and his wife are side by side in the churchyard.


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