St Giles' cemetery - Wormshill, Kent
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N 51° 17.094 E 000° 41.829
31U E 339410 N 5684026
Parish cemetery at St Giles' church, Wormshill.
Waymark Code: WM11BFC
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/22/2019
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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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