Somerset

Churchyards and  Cemeteries

 

 

Barrington - St Mary’s Church

ChillingtonSt James Church

Curry RivelSt Andrew’s Church

Fivehead - St Martin's Church

Fivehead - The Cemetery

Hambridge - St James the Less Church

Huish Episcopi - St Mary the Virgin

Isle Abbotts - St Mary the Virgin

Isle Abbotts - Baptist Church

Isle Brewer - All Saint's Church

Kingsbury Episcopi -  St Martin's Church

Martock - All Saint's Church

MuchelneyChurch of St Peter & St Paul

Seavington St Mary  - St Mary's Church

Seavington St Michael  - St Michael's Church

Shepton BeauchampSt Michael’s Church

South Petherton - The Cemetery

 

 

Your tombstone stands out amongst the rest,
neglected and alone,
The name and date are chiseled out
in polished marble stone.
It reaches out to all who care,
it is too late to mourn
You did not know that I’d exist,
you died and I was born.
Yet each of us is cells of you
in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our heart contracts, and beats a pulse,
entirely not our own.
Dear ancestor, the place you filled
one hundred years ago
spreads out amongst the ones you left
who would have loved you so.
I wonder how you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew,
that someday I would find this spot,
and come and visit you.

(author unknown)

 

A special thanks to my very good friend - without Donna I would not have been able to visit the many churchyards and cemeteries, she also helped with the photographing too!