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Lymington: All Saints, Woodside

Name:

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Lymington: All Saints, Woodside
Record Type:

A classification of the current status of the building

Closed Church
Church code:

This is a unique identification number supplied to each church building by the Church Commissioners.

641268
Diocese:

Name of diocese in which the church building is located at the time of entry.

Winchester
Archdeaconry:

Name of archdeaconry in which the church building is located at the time of entry

Bournemouth
Parish:

This is the legal name of the parish as given by the Church Commissioners.

Lymington

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Statutory Designation Information

Listed Building?

The decision to put a church building on the National Heritage List for England and assign it a listing grade is made by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. The decision is normally based on recommendations made by Historic England, the government’s adviser on the historic environment.

This is a Grade II Listed Building
View more information about this Listed Building on the National Heritage List for England web site
Scheduled Monument?

The decision to schedule a feature (building, monument, archaeological remains, etc.) located within the church building’s precinct or churchyard is made by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. The decision is based on recommendations made by Historic England, the government’s adviser on cultural heritage.

There is no Scheduled Monument within the curtilage or precinct

National Park

National Parks are areas of countryside that include villages and towns, which are protected because of their beautiful countryside, wildlife and cultural heritage. In England, National Parks are designated by Natural England, the government’s advisor on the natural environment.

The church is not in a National Park

Conservation Area

Conservation areas are places of special architectural or historic interest where it is desirable to preserve and enhance the character and appearance of such areas. Conservation Areas are designated by the Local Council.

The church is not in a Conservation Area

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Heritage At Risk Status

On Heritage At Risk Register?

The Heritage at Risk programme is run and managed by Historic England, the government’s advisor on cultural heritage. It aims to protect and manage the historic environment, so that the number of ‘at risk’ historic places and sites across England are reduced.

This church is not on the Heritage at Risk Register
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Approximate Date

Approximate Date:

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The CHR records the time period for the building’s predominant fabric as opposed to the date of the earliest fabric or the church’s foundation date.

Victorian/Pre-WWI

Exterior Image

Exterior image of 641268 Lymington All Saints, Woodside
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Exterior image of 641268 Lymington All Saints, Woodside
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Photograph of the south elevation as seen from the south.
Year / Date:

2011, April 06

December 2015
Copyright:

Keltek Trust

Archbishops' Council
Originator:

Keltek Trust

Tom Ashley

Summary Description

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W. H. Romaine Walker, 1909 as the daughter church to St Thomas’s. One composition with linked hall.

Visiting and Facilities

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The church is open for worship.
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Church Website

Church Website:

www.holytrinitylyonsdown.org.uk

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Sources and Further Information

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Tom Ashley (December 2015) Exterior image of 641268 Lymington All Saints, Woodside [Digital Archive/Graphic material]
Exterior image of 641268 Lymington All Saints, Woodside
Tom Ashley (December 2015) Interior image of 641268 Lymington All Saints, Woodside [Digital Archive/Graphic material]
Interior image of 641268 Lymington All Saints, Woodside
Church of England (2021) A Church Near You https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/18481/ [Digital Archive/Index]
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If you notice any errors with the below outlines of your connected churchyards, please email heritageonline@churchofengland.org with the corrections needed.

This could include information on new churchyards, edits to the boundaries shown, or different land characteristics. 

We are working on adding the consecrated land found within local authority cemeteries, and in time, this data will be shown on the map.

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Administrative Area

County:

The administrative area within which the church is located.

Hampshire County

Location and Setting

This field describes the setting of the church building, i.e. the surroundings in which the church building is experienced, and whether or not it makes a positive or negative contribution to the significance of the building.

Lymington is a small town near the mouth of the Lymington River on the Solent, facing Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight.

In the ‘Woodside’ area to the south of Lymington, the part of the town nearest the Solent – a residential area. Surrounded by residential properties on all sides. Set back, but visible, from All Saints Road.

Grassy area to the S and W of the church, unburied. The churchyard and the courtyard to the N, bounded on two sides by the church and the hall, are an important part of the overall composition of the site, giving the buildings a collegiate quality.

Vehicular access to churchyard via gated entrance.

Parking available in the courtyard area to the N of the church, as well as a gravelled area to the SE of the site.

Church Plan

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Ground Plan Description and Dimensions

Ground Plan

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Six-bay nave with chancel, aisles, NE Lady Chapel, SE organ loft and attached vestry; attached to NW corner by an open porch is four-bay church hall with w/c annexe to N end.

Linked church hall also by W. H. Romaine Walker, 1909, separately listed at Grade II for high group value with church. One composition around two sides of a courtyard. Shares common entrance with church. Contains kitchen, lavatories and community space.

Dimensions

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Footprint of Church buildings (m2):

Small (<199m2)

Medium (200-599m2)

Large (600m-999m2)

Very Large (>1000m2)

498 m2

Description of Archaeology and History

This field aims to record the archaeological potential of the wider area around the building and churchyard, as well as the history of site.

Within the parish are the ‘Buckland Rings’, a multivallate hill-fort with evidence for Neolithic and Bronze age occupation, and Bronze Age remains and beaker pottery have been found at a number of other sites. Other archaeological finds in the vicinity of the church have included Lower Paleolithic hand-axes, and Roman remains including a ditch, coins, a cult head and (possibly) carved stones and a necklace. However, there is no special reason to think that the area of the church and churchyard has significant archaeological potential.

An archaeological watching brief should be in place in the event of any excavation of the site.

The churchyard is unburied.

Consecrated in December 1909 and opened in the following year.

Paid for with money bequeathed by two sisters, Miss Harriet Spike and Mrs Fanny Haldane (widow of George Haldane). Provided 300 seats serving the westward expansion of Lymington, with a hall intended for use as a Sunday school. The builders were J. McWilliam of Bournemouth.

William Henry Romaine Walker (1854-1940) studied under G. E. Street (noted Victorian ecclesiastical architect and designer of the Law Courts). His father was a vicar and Romaine Walker’s first church work was for his father’s church of St Saviour, Pimlico, where he oversaw internal alterations in 1882-83. Best known for his country houses: nearest to All Saints is the noted Rhinefield Lodge of 1888-90. Also rebuilt the main staircase at Chatsworth in 1910 and designed the Edwardian extensions to the Tate. His most comparable buildings to All Saints are the churches of St John the Baptist, Upper Parkstone, Dorset (1902-03) and St Saviour, Brockenhurst (consecrated 1905), both with Besant.

All the trees in and around the churchyard have TPOs.

Exterior Description

This field aims to record a written description of the exterior of the church building and the churchyard.

Church and hall are set at right angles, defining two sides of a courtyard. The two buildings are linked by a shared entrance porch with a pointed-arched portal.

The church hall is in a C17 domestic style, chosen as a subtle contrast with that of the church to express their different functions. It has four windows each side, E and W, with mullions and leaded glazing.  There is a lower projection to the N containing the kitchen, with two windows and a door on the W side, and a stone chimney to each end N and S; the boiler house and lavatories are at the S end, with a door on the W side.  The carefully considered integration of the church hall with the church is noted amongst the principal reasons for the building’s designation at Grade II.

The porch features much fine stone carving. The column capitals to the main portal are carved with thick foliage through which a hooded figure alternately pursues and is pursued by a monstrous creature. Internally, the doorway to the church features headstops of a knight and lady, and that to the hall of a maiden and an old man. The ceiling tracery springs from corbels depicting the symbols of the four Evangelists and meets in a Green Man boss.

The church window tracery is in Decorated Gothic style, with mouchettes within mandorlas to upper lights. Aisle and transept windows are two-light, with hood moulds and a string course beneath. There is a set-back buttress between each pair of windows. Triple E windows are joined by a hood-mould: a two-light central window with a lancet either side. Double W windows, both two-light, are joined by a hood mould, with a string-course beneath. A plinth runs around the church.

The aisles are lower than the nave. The roof line is defined by a deep cornice. There is a small octagonal belfry tower at the E end of the N aisle with a crocketted spirelet with a cross finial and lancet openings, set in a crenelated turret with lancet openings beneath the parapet and a single lancet, containing tracery similar to that of the other church windows, on the SE face.

On the N side, a low vestry and an organ chamber in the form of a N transept with diagonal buttresses and a door on the W side.

At the W end, a door with hood mould. Triple lancets in apex of gable to ventilate the roof-space. Gable ends with kneelers to E and W ends, each surmounted with cross finial.

Architects, Artists and Associated People/Organisations

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Who:
W H Romaine Walker
Role:
Architect
From:
01 Jan 1909
To:
31 Dec 1909
Contribution:
designed church
Who:
James Lunn-Rockliffe
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Architect / Surveyor ICM55
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Building Fabric and Features

This field is an index of the building and its major components

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AISLE (20th century)
CHANCEL (20th century)
CHURCH HALL (20th century)
LADY CHAPEL (20th century)
NAVE (20th century)
ORGAN LOFT (20th century)
PORCH (20th century)
VESTRY (20th century)

Building Materials

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BATH STONE (20th century)
LIMESTONE (20th Century)
LIMESTONE (20th Century)
LIMESTONE (20th century)
PAINTED PLASTER (20th century)
SLATE (20th century)
STONE (20th century)
TIMBER (20th century)

Interior Image

Interior image of 641268 Lymington All Saints, Woodside
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Interior image of 641268 Lymington All Saints, Woodside
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Photograph of the inside of the church, looking east.
Year / Date:
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December 2015
Copyright:
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Archbishops' Council
Originator:
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Tom Ashley

Interior Description

This field aims to record a written description of the interior of the church building.

The N door (wooden, single-leaf, with ornamental iron hinges) opens into a light, lofty interior. There is a level parquet floor until the E end, where there is one step up to the chancel and the Lady Chapel. The chancel floor is in wide bands of white stone alternating with thin bands of red tile, creating a sort of pinstriped streaky bacon effect. There is a further step at the communion rail and two steps up to the altar.

Clustered quatrefoil piers with roll-moulded capitals carry moulded arches. A stained timber wagon roof, divided into square compartments with moulded ribs, is continuous the length of the church. There is no chancel arch. A string-course runs under the windows, which have hood moulds.

The building’s exuberant stone carving, inside and out, is noted in the listing description as being ‘of a very high order’, and one of the principal reasons for the building’s designation at Grade II. Moulded surrounds to NW and W doors are enriched with characterful carvings of tradesmen, apparently portraits: a carpenter with a saw, a smith with a vice, a mason with hammer and chisel, and a stone-carver working on a gargoyle. There are further carvings between the E windows and forming stops to the hood moulds of the arches between the chancel and organ chamber / Lady Chapel. A small corridor between the Lady Chapel and the chancel formed by the little belfry tower has a carefully detailed ribbed vault with a central roof boss depicting a piper. There is a piscina in the sanctuary, S side, with elaborate floral tracery.

The listing description notes as a principal reason for the building’s designation at Grade II that the church is carefully designed and very little altered, possessing a spacious and harmonious interior. The replacement of the original oak pews with modern, brightly upholstered chairs has somewhat upset this harmony but the quality of the whole is undiminished. There is an oak choir screen between the chancel and the Lady Chapel. The choir stalls stand on level parquet platforms.

Internal Fixtures and Fittings

This field is an index of the building’s internal, architectural components. This includes its internal spaces and those areas’ fixtures and fittings (building components which are securely fixed to the church or cathedral).

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ALTAR (20th century)
FONT (COMPONENT) (20th century)
LECTERN (20th century)
ORGAN (COMPONENT) (20th century)
PLAQUE (COMPONENT) (20th century)
PULPIT (20th century)
RAIL (20th century)
REREDOS (20th century)
STAINED GLASS (WINDOW) (20th century)
STALL (20th century)

Portable Furnishings and Artworks

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CHAIR (21st century)

If you notice any errors with the below outlines of your connected churchyards, please email heritageonline@churchofengland.org with the corrections needed.

This could include information on new churchyards, edits to the boundaries shown, or different land characteristics. 

We are working on adding the consecrated land found within local authority cemeteries, and in time, this data will be shown on the map.

Grid Reference: SZ 326 945

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Ecology

This field aims to record a description of the ecology of the churchyard and surrounding setting.

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Ecological Designations

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The everyday wildlife of burial grounds means much to those who visit and cherish them but many burial grounds are so rich in wildlife that they should be designated and specially protected. Few have the legal protection of a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) or, in the case of local authority owned cemeteries, Local Nature Reserve. This makes it even more important that they are cared for and protected by the people looking after them.

Many have a non-statutory designation as a recognition of their importance. These non-statutory designations have a variety of names in different regions including Local Wildlife Site, County Wildlife Site, Site of Importance for Nature Conservation or Site of Nature Conservation Importance (Local Wildlife Site is the most common name). Their selection is based on records of the most important, distinctive and threatened species and habitats within a national, regional and local context. This makes them some of our most valuable wildlife areas.

For example, many burial grounds which are designated as Local Wildlife Sites contain species-rich meadow, rich in wildflowers, native grasses and grassland fungi managed by only occasional mowing plus raking. When this is the case, many animals may be present too, insects, birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals. This type of grassland was once widespread and has been almost entirely lost from the UK with approximately 3% remaining, so burial grounds with species-rich meadow managed in this way are extremely important for wildlife.

These designations should be considered when planning management or change.

If you think that this or any other burial ground should be designated please contact Caring for God’s Acre (info@cfga.org.uk) to discuss. Many eligible sites have not yet received a designation and can be surveyed and then submitted for consideration.

There are no SSSIs within the curtilage of this Closed Church.

There are no Local nature reserves within the curtilage of this Closed Church.

There are no Local Wildlife sites within the curtilage of this Closed Church.

Evidence of the Presence of Bats

This field aims to record any evidence of the presence of bats in the church building or churchyard.

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Burial and War Grave Information

This field records basic information about the presence of a churchyard and its use as a burial ground.

It is unknown whether the church or churchyard is consecrated. Work in progress - can you help?
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It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial. Work in progress - can you help?
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It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial. Work in progress - can you help?
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It is unknown whether the churchyard is closed for burial. Work in progress - can you help?
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The churchyard does not have war graves.

National Heritage List for England Designations

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There are no Scheduled Monuments within the curtilage of this Closed Church.

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Listed Building All Saints Church Hall II View more

Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees

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Churchyards are home to fantastic trees, in particular ancient and veteran trees which can be the oldest indication of a sacred space and be features of extraordinary individuality. The UK holds a globally important population of ancient and veteran yew trees of which three-quarters are found in the churchyards of England and Wales.

There are more than 1,000 ancient and veteran yews aged at least 500 years in these churchyards.

To put this in context, the only other part of western Europe with a known significant yew population is Normandy in northern France, where more than 100 ancient or veteran churchyard yews have been recorded.

Burial grounds may contain veteran and ancient trees of other species such as sweet chestnut or small-leaved lime which, whilst maybe not so old as the yews, are still important for wildlife and may be home to many other species.

Specialist advice is needed when managing these wonderful trees. For more information or to seek advice please contact Caring for God’s Acre, The Ancient Yew Group and The Woodland Trust.

If you know of an ancient or veteran tree in a burial ground that is not listed here please contact Caring for God’s Acre.

There are currently no Ancient, Veteran or Notable trees connected to this Closed Church

Churchyard Structures

This field is an index of the churchyard’s components.

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Significance

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Significance is the whole set of reasons why people value a church, whether as a place for worship and mission, as an historic building that is part of the national heritage, as a focus for the local community, as a familiar landmark or for any other reasons.

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Setting Significance Description:
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Fabric Significance Level:
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Moderate
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The church was designed by an interesting late-Victorian and Edwardian architect who was responsible for several notable buildings, sacred and secular. The church is carefully designed and little altered, being of moderate significance.
Interior Significance Level:
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Moderate
Interior Significance Description:
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The interior is spacious and harmonious with high quality furnishings.
Community Significance Level:
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Church Renewables

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Solar Thermal Panels:
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Bio Mass:
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No
Air Source Heat Pump:
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No
Ground Source Heat Pump:
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Wind Turbine:
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EV Car Charging:
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Species Summary

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All of the species listed below have been recorded in close proximity to the Closed Church . A few species which are particularly threatened and affected by disturbance may not be listed here because their exact location cannot be shared.

NOTE: Be aware that this dataset is growing, and the species totals may change once the National Biodiversity Network has added further records. Species may be present but not recorded and still await discovery.

CategoryTotal species recorded to date
TOTAL NUMBER OF SPECIES RECORDED 2
Total number of animal species 2
Total number of plant species 0
Total number of mammal species 0
Total number of birds 1
Total number of amphibian and reptile species 0
Total number of invertebrate species 0
Total number of fungi species 0
Total number of mosses and liverworts (bryophytes) 0
Total number of ferns 0
Total number of flowering plants 0
Total number of Gymnosperm and Ginkgo 0

Caring for God’s Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.

To learn more about all of the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.

‘Seek Advice’ Species

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If any of the following species have been seen close to the Closed Church, it is important to seek advice from an expert. You will need to know if they are present now, and to follow expert recommendations when planning works. All of these species have specific legal protection as a recognition of their rarity. All of them are rare or becoming increasingly endangered, so it is important to ensure that management and other works do not adversely affect them. In addition, there may be things you can do to help these special species. N.B. Swift and House Martin do not have specific legal protection but are included, as roof repair works often impact breeding swifts and house martins which is against the law.

This is not a complete list of protected species, there are many more, but these are ones that are more likely to be found. All wild birds, their nests and eggs are also protected by law, as are all bats and veteran trees. In a few cases, species are considered particularly prone to disturbance or destruction by people, so the exact location of where they were recorded is not publicly available but can be requested. These ‘blurred’ records are included here, and the accuracy is to 1km. This means that the species has been recorded in close proximity to the Closed Church, or a maximum of 1km away from it. As these ‘blurred’ species are quite mobile, there is a strong likelihood that they can occur close to the Closed Church. To learn about these special species, use the link provided for each species in the table below

One important species which is not included here is the Peregrine Falcon. This is protected and advice should be sought if peregrines are nesting on a church or cathedral. Peregrine records are ‘blurred’ to 10km, hence the decision not to include records here. Remember too that species not seriously threatened nationally may still be at risk in your region and be sensitive to works. You should check with local experts about this. You may also need to seek advice about invasive species, such as Japanese knotweed and aquatics colonising streams or pools, which can spread in churchyards.

N.B. If a species is not recorded this does not indicate absence. It is always good practice to survey.

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Caring for God’s Acre can help and support you in looking after the biodiversity present in this special place. If you know that any of these species occur close to the Closed Church and are not recorded here, please contact Caring for God’s Acre with details (info@cfga.org.uk).

To find out more about these and other species recorded against this Closed Church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas.

The church was the centre of many people’s lives and remains a guide to their cares and concerns. Glimpses into those lives have often come down to us in the stories we heard as children or old photographs discovered in tattered shoe boxes. Perhaps your ancestors even made it into local legend following some fantastic event? You can choose to share those memories with others and record them for future generations on this Forum.

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