St. Peter's Churchyard Project
A project by Minsterworth villagers to record the graves and commemorative stones in St. Peter's churchyard, Minsterworth.
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An up-to-date survey has been carried out of the churchyard, to map and identify the burial plots in St. Peter's Church, Minsterworth. In addition, the records also include monuments in the churchyard and church as recorded in the late 1700’s by the Gloucestershire historian Ralph Bigland (a) and also details of memorials extant inside the church (b).
Led by the village's historian, Terry Moore-Scott, and with great support from members of the village community, a project was established to produce an up to date record of the grave stones and cremation plaques with full names and dates, augmenting a more limited survey done by Laurence Fulbrook-Leggatt in august back in 1954. In more recent times, the churchyard has been extended to within a few yards of the river Severn's flood defence abutments, and a large number of new graves in that area, as well as many elsewhere in the churchyard, have had to be recorded. The results of the survey are shown in a listing below. This lists surnames in alphabetical order allowing searchers to find relatives or memorial sites within the churchyard. Use is made of the zone designator letters used by Fulbrook-Leggatt in his original survey (A to F), with the churchyard extension area being a new zone G. (a) Taken from Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to the County of Gloucester (section CLXXV) compiled by Ralph Bigland and published around 1786-91. The present-day church of St. Peter’s was built in the late 19th century replacing an earlier church which had stood on the same site since medieval times. Bigland’s information relates to what existed in and around that older church. Virtually all the burials he located in the churchyard predate, and don’t appear, in the modern record. (b) A few of the memorials listed as being in the church are earlier, but most date from the late 19th century. |
How to use this record
Below (and linked) you will find the following series of documents:
• An overall plan of the churchyard on which the area is broken down into six zones (A to G). Each burial site has a one-up serial number designator appropriate for its zone, e.g. A1, A2, F1, F2 etc. Cremation plots that exist in zones C, F and G are similarly numbered but with an extra ‘C’ in the number, e.g. CC1, CC2, FC1. FC2, GC1, GC2 etc.
• Individual plans for each Zone - Zone A, Zone B, Zone C, Zone D, Zone E, Zone F, Zone G.
• A list arranged by alphabetical order of surname. Check to see if the surname you are interested in is in the record and read across to find forename(s), date of death, age at death, the zone in which the grave is located and the plot number assigned to it. Where other individuals are associated with the same grave, this is also shown. Use the plot number and the plan to locate where in the churchyard the grave is approximately located.
• A list of surnames in alphabetical order derived from the Bigland 18th century survey. Read across the table to find forename and date of death. Where other individuals are associated with the same grave, this is also shown. Each entry is numbered according to the order it is shown in the Bigland record. The majority are described by Bigland as being located in the churchyard though some are explicitly said to have been located at points within the earlier church such as the nave, chancel aisle etc. Virtually all this information is additional to that given at (b) above.
• A list of surnames in alphabetical order relating to memorials seen in the present-day church. Read across to find forename(s), date of death and age at death. Names and dates of death of others appearing on the memorial are also shown. Each memorial has been given a number with the prefix ’M’ and its location in the church can be established using the accompanying plan.
Below (and linked) you will find the following series of documents:
• An overall plan of the churchyard on which the area is broken down into six zones (A to G). Each burial site has a one-up serial number designator appropriate for its zone, e.g. A1, A2, F1, F2 etc. Cremation plots that exist in zones C, F and G are similarly numbered but with an extra ‘C’ in the number, e.g. CC1, CC2, FC1. FC2, GC1, GC2 etc.
• Individual plans for each Zone - Zone A, Zone B, Zone C, Zone D, Zone E, Zone F, Zone G.
• A list arranged by alphabetical order of surname. Check to see if the surname you are interested in is in the record and read across to find forename(s), date of death, age at death, the zone in which the grave is located and the plot number assigned to it. Where other individuals are associated with the same grave, this is also shown. Use the plot number and the plan to locate where in the churchyard the grave is approximately located.
• A list of surnames in alphabetical order derived from the Bigland 18th century survey. Read across the table to find forename and date of death. Where other individuals are associated with the same grave, this is also shown. Each entry is numbered according to the order it is shown in the Bigland record. The majority are described by Bigland as being located in the churchyard though some are explicitly said to have been located at points within the earlier church such as the nave, chancel aisle etc. Virtually all this information is additional to that given at (b) above.
• A list of surnames in alphabetical order relating to memorials seen in the present-day church. Read across to find forename(s), date of death and age at death. Names and dates of death of others appearing on the memorial are also shown. Each memorial has been given a number with the prefix ’M’ and its location in the church can be established using the accompanying plan.
Please download the images below to your computer to view each zone
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