Caring for your Churchyard
The Churchyard is much more than a garden beside the church. It can be a space of quiet reflection, an ancient landscape, a habitat for rare plant and animal species, a space full of archaeological and historical information as well as an appropriate setting for the church building. All of these aspects have been increasingly recognised for their importance. However, a churchyard, whether open or closed, is primarily a consecrated place set aside for burials and grieving, remembering and commemorating the dead.
