Burial Ground

This graveyard is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a rectangular walled area (c. 50m N–S; c. 40m E–W) accessed by a short laneway at N, and with a church (MA039-053001-) ‘in ruins’ in the NW quadrant. By the time of the 1930 edition it had changed little, but since then has been extended greatly to N and E, resulting in the removal of the old boundary walls on those sides. Mortared stone walls of uncoarsed rubble remain at W and S. Numerous low, upright uninscribed stone gravemarkers protrude from the uneven, grass-cover surface in the old part of the graveyard. Some consist of small, roughly rectangular slabs, but most are simple, rough field stones. They are arranged in roughly N-S rows, with the gravemarkers sometimes very close-set or contiguous. Interspersed between these simple gravemarkers, are formal, inscribed headstones, graveslabs and table tombs, dating to the 18th- and 19th-centuries, with a few 20th-century graves. A carved stone cross (MA039-053003-), found within the graveyard 25m SE of the church, is now located within the church. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 21 February 2020