Churchyards

I have lately read a little tract, by Mr. Hill, the Rural Dean of North Frome, in the Diocese of Hereford, entitled Thoughts on Churches and Churchyards, which is well worthy of the attentive perusal of the country clergy.

The Recreations of a Country Parson Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd 1862

Churchyards are offensive to our multicultural friends.

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"And the King commandeth and forbiddeth, that from henceforth neither fairs nor markets be kept in Churchyards, for the honour of the Church." —

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

A smock frock, washed till it was quite white, was as common a sight then as was the scarlet cloak worn by our great-grandmothers, but both these familiar sights have disappeared as completely as the yellow leather top boots, to be seen on Sundays up till fifty years ago in the Churchyards of rural England.

Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

Churchyards, north sides of, 55. 92. 123. 189. 253. 346.

Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 2, May-December, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc. Various

Living on field roots -- Churchyards enlarged -- Three coffins on a donkey cart.

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

He has a thought, a pity, for those things that once were men and women, lying, with their six feet of earth upon them, in our English Churchyards, so horribly still, while the mask of their sorrow yields to the yet more terrible grin of our mortality's last jest.

Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

Churchyards be well and sufficiently repaired, fenced and maintained with walls, rails, or pales, as have been in each place accustomed, at their charges unto whom by law the same appertaineth: but especially they shall see that in every meeting of the congregation peace be well kept: and that all persons excommunicated, and so denounced, be kept out of the

Churchwardens' Manual their duties, powers, rights, and privilages George Henry Sumner 1866

Churchyards, wherever the expenses of such maintenance and repair are repayable out of the Poor Rate under the Burial Act, 1855, {30a} are transferred to the Parish Council.

Churchwardens' Manual their duties, powers, rights, and privilages George Henry Sumner 1866

With regard to closed Churchyards the obligations of the Churchwardens in rural parishes with respect to maintaining and repairing closed

Churchwardens' Manual their duties, powers, rights, and privilages George Henry Sumner 1866