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GOD’S ACRE:
RECORDING
CHURCHYARDS
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How churchyards evolved
Look at the landscape around the church
Where in the village / town / city is the church positioned?
Is the churchyard constrained by any natural features?
Is the church / yard next to a manor house / castle?
What is the shape of the churchyard?
What are the physical boundaries?
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East Drayton:
central village
position
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Winkburn:
Isolated
church next to
manor house
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Cotham: isolated due to
village contraction
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Sibthorpe: village perimeter next
to medieval manor site and
contracted village
Trees form
‘recent’
lanscaping
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Nottingham, St
Andrew:
constrained city-
centre location
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Burrow Mump, Somerset: built on a natural mound,
away from the village, possibly for defence
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Ellemford, Scottish Borders: fortified location
above the river Whiteadder
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Egmanton: church lies next to, perhaps in the outer
bailey of, the Norman motte and bailey castle –
thus helping to define the shape of the churchyard
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Knowlton, Dorset: church set within Bronze Age henge
monument showing re-use of pre-Christian site
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Jersey: La Hougue Bie – medieval chapel set on a
Neolithic burial mound
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Moorhouse chapel: set within complex earthworks
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Moorhouse chapel: earthworks but no churchyard
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SHAPE OF THE
CHURCHYARD
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Staunton, regular churchyard with addition
where former chapel stood
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Kingston-on-Soar: approximately circular churchyard
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Hawton: elongated / boat-shaped churchyard
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Misterton: elongated churchyard
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Linby: regular, rectangular churchyard
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Bilsthorpe: churchyard extension
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Hoveringham: adjacent extension to churchyard
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Hoveringham:
old churchyard
Hoveringham:
Late-C19th extension
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Examining the
evidence
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Walk around the churchyard and work out
where the earliest grave-markers are.
Try to find the earliest date
and note where it is
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Llangar, Clwyd. Evolution of the churchyard
through dates on grave-markers
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C6th ‘Cudgar’ stone from
Ardwall Island, Galloway.
C5th ‘Latinus’ stone from
Whithorn, Galloway.
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Farnsfield: 1671 grave-marker. Typically, of this date, crudely
executed and on a plain stone face without ornament
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The style of grave-markers helps give an approximate period
Here an 1885 memorial at Upton
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Winkburn: early C18th
Grave-marker
Hambleton, Rutland:
Simple C19th numbered
iron marker
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Note materials used and unusual depictions – here a
Swithland slate stone at Screveton depicting the church
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It’s important to describe any unusual or elaborate
monuments or grave-markers.
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Hoveringham: sundial in churchyard
Features other than grave-markers
may be present
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Describe the entrance(s) to the churchyard
and in particular if there is a lych-gate
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Note the layout of pathways and tree planting
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Record the boundaries of the churchyard noting
materials and style
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Bingham