What’s happening with the gravestones?
The Linda McCartney Foundation have provided funding for a new garden area at. St Michaels focused on encouraging young people to experience vegetable growing.This is enabling us to clear and develop the overgrown corner of the site. The gravestones, many of which had been damaged in the bombing of the original church building, had been stacked here when the churchyard was decommissioned and deconsecrated some years ago. The intention was always to use them as paving in a garden area where the beautiful inscriptions can be admired and are available for local historians and families. These images show the gravestones being documented and moved into new positions along with the planned design for the new food growing area.If you’d like to get involved with volunteering in the garden or know any young people who would like to get involved please get in touch with Annie Merry at Faiths4Change annie@faiths4change.org.uk
