Recording History in the Prescot St Mary Churchyard

Interesting Gravestones in the Churchyard

Scheduling the old gravestones and transcribing the inscriptions can sometimes be quite challenging.

As a part of our work in the Churchyard, we have been recording the history of some of the gravestones which have been moved from their original locations in order to make a footpath, or ‘walkway’ right around the Church.

The oldest gravestone we have identified dates back to the 1600s and a great deal of the others date back to the 1700s and the 1800s.

Many of the old stones were taken up in the early 1970s and re-laid to form the walkway which runs right around the boundary of the Church building.

Please see the following Posts which show each individual headstone/gravestone item: