The Church of St Peter, Englishcombe is Norman in origin but rebuilt by the de Gournay family and in 1840 repaired with an addition of 60 sittings.
Histories and descriptions of the parish and the church can be found at:
The churchyard is on all four sides of the church. A survey was started out in about 2002 but never completed. No sexton’s book describing who is buried where seems to have survived. In the absence of this, the original survey divided the churchyard into arbitrary areas A-L with numbers then assigned to the surviving memorials.
Burials per year
In the period from 1784 to present there had been 1,179 burials. The number of burials per year was between 6 and 10 during the 19th century, this decreasing over the next 50 years to less than one per year. The churchyard is now ‘closed’ with only the burial of cremated remains outside the eastern end of the church.
Areas
Englishcombe Church from Haycombe cemetery
The northern side of the churchyard has the graves arranged in a grid aligned with the line of the northern wall of the church. The graves in the southern area are quite sparse but also seem to be arranged in a grid.
