Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Notes on Eighteenth-Century Churchyards

I'm hoping that the following maps and their accompanying notes, based on my observations from the three churches we visited today, will help us reconstruct the St. George's Church site as it was in the eighteenth century.


Notes:
-Gravestones all face the same direction (towards the church).
-Old sandstones are located to one side of and behind the church.
-Some old sandstones are located only a few feet away from the church.
-The church's entrance faces the road.

Caveats:
-Present church is not original.
-Old stones may have been moved from their original positions.

Notes:
-Gravestones all face the same direction (the same as the entrance of the church).
-Old sandstones are located behind and on two sides of the church.
-Old sandstones are located between a few feet and dozens of yards away from the church.
-The church's entrance is on the long side of the church.

Caveats:
-Old stones could have been moved from their original positions.


Notes:
-Gravestones all face the same direction (towards the church?).
-Old sandstones are located behind and on two sides of the church.
-The church's entrance may have faced the road.
-Old sandstones are located closer to the church than nineteenth-century stones.

Caveats:
-Present church is not original.
-Old sandstones may have been moved from their original locations.

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