St Giles' cemetery - Wormshill, Kent - Worldwide Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

Parish cemetery at St Giles' church, Wormshill.

"CHURCHYARD AND ENVIRONS:
Size & Shape: Quite large area around church, with extension to E.

Condition: Good

Boundary walls: Flint + brick boundary on west.

Building in churchyard or on boundary: -

Exceptional monuments: Four fine (?17th cent.) table-tombs of Ragstone to S.E. chancel - now overgrown and falling apart. Also 1 ? 17th century gravestone.

Ecological potential: ? - Large Yew to N.W. of church.

HISTORICAL RECORD (where known):
Earliest ref. to church: Domesday Book (1086) as Godeselle (also in D.M.).

Late med. status (vicarage): Rectory

Patron: The Lord of the Manor

Other documentary sources: Hasted V (1798), 564-5. Testamenta Cantiana (E. Kent, 1907), 374-5 mention burial in churchyard, 1460, 1463 etc."

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"St Giles Church is the sole church in the village of Wormshill in Kent. The church is Anglican and is dedicated to Saint Giles. It forms part of the united benefice of Tunstall with Bredgar. The other parishes are Milstead, Bicknor and Frinsted and Rodmersham. The ecclesiastical parish of Wormshill is in the Diocese of Canterbury and the Sittingbourne deanery (within the archdeaconry of Maidstone). It is a Grade II listed building, English Heritage number 1060971."

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City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Wormshill / Kent / England Approximate number of graves: 50 Cemetery Status: Inactive Maintained Cemetery Website: [Web Link]

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