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Sentence Examples The village has a green, communally owned by the freeholders and stocks in the churchyard. However he did get his wish as now he rests under the tall trees where the birds sing in Tourlestrane churchyard. Most Icelanders are put to rest in a grave, which is two metres deep, in a churchyard subsequent to the appropriate ceremony. Within the churchyard, somebody has taken the time and trouble to make a memorial stone. The Corbridge pele, built of reused Roman stonework, lies on the edge of the churchyard and was the vicar's house. Just now, it looks splendid with carpets of primroses in the churchyard and inside, much repair work completed. But York Archaeological Trust's latest venture is strictly surface-bound and involves the transformation of an under-used city centre churchyard. My wife and I sat in the churchyard looking at the magnificent views from the little cemetery at the back. It was never a formal or tidy place, the very opposite of our municipal cemeteries and more like an unkempt churchyard. The village is named after St Wrw, whose remains are said to be buried in the chantry chapel in the churchyard. For his funeral the Archbishop's pall was borne by Sheffield steelworkers to his last resting place in the old churchyard in Bishopthorpe. Mr. Smith owned the Clewer Nursery Gardens in Surly Hall Road and was responsible for the grave-digging and churchyard upkeep. As with many former churches, the surrounding churchyard is not included in the sale. The panel was unveiled in the churchyard following a special service at the parish church. The woman continued walking along the alley and into the churchyard at St John's Church, Great Clacton. Children have put the first days of the summer holidays to good use by recording details of gravestones in the churchyard. The churchyard is not enclosed and is used as a main route through the town centre. Incidents of petty vandalism are rising at the church, and there have been fights in the churchyard. More than half the burials in the churchyard have taken place in the last 20 years. Police are hunting a man who indecently exposed himself to a woman in a churchyard. Show More Sentences Another is that it's the phantom of a woman buried in the churchyard, who died with a guilty secret. Jet-black ravens squawked in the churchyard and storm-grey pigeons cooed in the park. Early the next morning a woman walking her dog near St Mark's church in Woodhouse, Leeds, saw a man slumped against the churchyard gate. It was also used for watering the flowers in the churchyard, and for drinking water. They moved into the churchyard to get out of the light and he led her around to a paved area at the rear of the church. Settle parish churchyard was filling up rapidly and would have to close in two years. Human bones have been exposed on the cliff edge as a result of landslips at Whitby's historic parish churchyard. My photo below shows the rebuilt anchorage on the east wall in the peaceful churchyard surrounded by the bustle of the city centre. The gardens which surround the property include beech, lime and holm oak trees while in the eastern corner is an ancient churchyard. Marcia pointed out that at the same time as the High Street trees were planted a lime tree was put in the churchyard at the top of the street. In daily use for more than 300 years, the landmark rises from the churchyard in Allouville-Bellefosse. These ordinances were read out before the community at a further churchyard meeting in September and received community assent. Sections of the churchyard and a whole path were dug up and stones taken in the last two years in six separate raids. Territories were well-demarcated, but the boys respected the churchyard as neutral ground. Valuable stone flags and memorial stones have been stolen by thieves in a series of churchyard raids. The same youth was one of a group who were arrested trespassing at Malmesbury Abbey churchyard last month. Police officers stood guard at either end of the churchyard on the morning after the assault and fielded questions from visitors to the church. The ceaseless reinterments in a big town churchyard meant, in any case, that you could not expect a grave site to be permanently set apart for its tenant. As I round the corner one of the large banners, untethered at the bottom, billows in the wind, revealing a glimpse of old gravestones in the churchyard. There was a telephone number to ring if one had graves in the churchyard. Show More Sentences In places like these you can always find a public park, a neglected patch of grass with a broken bench, a churchyard fully-equipped with raddled drunks. Once off the A19, the roads to Kepwick were bordered by thick drifts of snowdrops and we found more growing alongside winter aconite in the small churchyard. Both are buried at Orton churchyard in a grave without a headstone. We slipped through St Bartholomew's churchyard, snowdrops fading, the fruit and nut trees blossoming, and channelled down a track towards the River Ure. The sexton had the task of digging the grave in the churchyard. He and his wife devoted many hours to the horticultural improvement of the local parish churchyard and shortly before retirement he took up cabinetmaking. I leaned out of the window but recoiled with disgust, for the young man with the pasty face stood below in the churchyard. Armed policemen guard the entrance to the church grounds while barbers, cobblers and fortune-tellers do business along the walls of the churchyard. Ray gave Jay a shell, then stepped onto a small, rickety carousel in the comer of the churchyard and loaded up. The churchyard is the location of the grave of Emily Wilding Davison, a lady with strong North Eastern roots who sacrificed her life for the Suffrage movement. Over 200 graves were found in the churchyard and 60 around the friars' choir. The gatepiers to the churchyard are a pair of Roman columns and the font in the church was made by hollowing out the capital of a Roman column. The Cathedral Church of St Deiniol is a Grade I Listed building and is set in a sloping oval churchyard. In fact Wroth had to preach in the churchyard because the church was too small to accommodate all those who attended. He was converted in 1737 as he listened to Harris preaching in Talgarth churchyard. He was buried in Speen churchyard in the Chilterns, near Princes Risborough, the village where his last artistic community had practised. She was cremated and her ashes were interred in St Andrew's churchyard, adjacent to Kilverstone Hall, on 22 July. Southey is buried in the churchyard of Crosthwaite Parish Church in Cumbria. St Mary's Gardens has been laid out as a park in Romantic style on the grounds of the former churchyard of the parish church of St Mary Magdalen. He is buried in the churchyard of St Bartholomew's Church, Lower Basildon, Berkshire, near his birthplace. Show More Sentences Many gravestones in the churchyard were cut from rock sourced at Worsley Delph. The Crosthwaite Free Grammar School, adjoining Crosthwaite churchyard, was an ancient institution, its date of foundation uncertain. He is buried in Crosthwaite churchyard and there is a memorial to him inside the church, with an inscription written by Wordsworth. Some 97 sets of remains were disinterred from the churchyard and transferred to Shap. Ruskin is buried in the churchyard in the village of Coniston, at the northern end of the lake. His stone, in the southwest section of the churchyard on a west facing wall, is plain and says nothing of his work. Make a detour to the churchyard, just down the main road, to see the preaching cross. He died on 21 March 1843 and was buried in the churchyard of Crosthwaite Church, Keswick, where he had worshipped for forty years. There is one other smaller stone, of the same type, in the churchyard, which was once situated near the large stone. He died in a duel on Claverton Down and is buried in the churchyard at the Church of St Nicholas in Bathampton. In 2012 a bust of the poet by Nigel Boonham was unveiled outside in the cathedral churchyard. All accounts agree, however, that the remains now lie in the vault in the churchyard of St Peter's Church, Bournemouth. Cobbett died there after a short illness in June 1835 and was buried in the churchyard of St Andrew's Parish Church, Farnham. Later that year he died on 12 August following second attack of pleurisy, and was buried in Trinity churchyard, in Chesterfield. He was later reinterred together with his wife in Minstead churchyard in the New Forest, Hampshire. Following his death, Thomas's body was brought back to Wales for burial in the village churchyard at Laugharne. Samuel Palmer died in Redhill, Surrey, and is buried with his wife in Reigate churchyard. Traditionally, a laird is formally styled in the manner evident on the 1730 tombstone in a Scottish churchyard. Both are buried in the churchyard of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity at Pitlochry. Its most distinctive feature is the parish close, which displays an elaborately decorated church surrounded by an entirely walled churchyard. Show More Sentences John James died on 3 March 1864 and is buried in the churchyard of St John the Evangelist, Shirley, Croydon. He was buried five days later in the churchyard at Coniston, according to his wishes. He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, Cumbria, in the southern Lake District. Historic flood levels have also been recorded at Girton and on the churchyard wall at Collingham. The twelve dead from the crash were kept in the Moorcock Inn cellar before burial in Hawes churchyard. In Widecombe churchyard is the grave of novelist Beatrice Chase who lived for much of her life in a cottage close to the village. On the south of the churchyard is the manor house, part of which is 15th century. During the same shift, Melville twice stopped for chinwags with friends in a churchyard, and visited a post office and a clothes shop. As I turned, my listless glance included the man below in the churchyard. A portion of the churchyard of Greyfriars Tolbooth and Highland Kirk was used as an open-air prison. He had been cutting grass in the churchyard, and an effet ran at him, and bit him on the thumb. Knots of gazers and gossips were collected in the churchyard, at the bridge, and at the spot where the hat and pumpkin had been found. Alkmund's Church and its Georgian churchyard, the only Georgian square in Derby. He died at his home on 16 March 1963, aged 84, and was buried in Thockrington churchyard, on the Northumbrian moors. Police believe the rapist may have followed his 18-year-old victim into a churchyard after she left Walkabout nightclub in Rugby to make a call from a nearby phonebox. A modern stone memorial to Blake and the other Parliamentarians reburied in the churchyard has been set into the external wall to the left of the main entrance of the church. Before his death, he rejected the option to be buried in Westminster Abbey, instead being laid to rest in the churchyard of St Andrew's, Coniston. The tree was blown down in a storm on Boxing Day 1998, but a replacement, grown from a cutting, now stands in the churchyard of Corstorphine Kirk. A piper led a parade to the churchyard where the Branch donated a Sweet Gum Tree, requested by the church board, to replace aged Carolinian trees. She kept up this lidden all through breakfast, and the meal was no sooner cleared away than she slipped on a shawl and stepped across to the churchyard to discuss the robbery. Show More Sentences His funeral service was held at Aldeburgh Parish Church three days later, and he was buried in its churchyard, with a gravestone carved by Reynolds Stone. She is buried in the nearby churchyard of St Mary's, Cholsey, having chosen the plot for their final resting place with her husband Sir Max some ten years before she died. He is buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Headington, Oxford. Henry Moore died on 31 August 1986, at the age of 88, in his home in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire where his body is interred in Perry Green churchyard. The Market Square came to prominence in 1235 when Henry III ordered that the selling of goods in the churchyard of All Saint's should be relocated to the Market Square. He is buried in the churchyard at St Enodoc's Church, Trebetherick. All four of the crew are buried in a Lossiemouth churchyard. A tall stone monument was erected in the churchyard of St Mary's Old Church, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly to recognise Smith's involvement with the Islands. Examples from Classical Literature Very early on the morning of the wedding the Major made his appearance in the churchyard. The tunnel-vaulted nave and porch, with a well-preserved cross in the churchyard, complete the tale of Warren's notabilia. The cottage that abutted on the churchyard was empty, and no other house stood near. While leading a sortie cleland was shot dead, and was buried in the churchyard. In the old churchyard are the graves of many other Vanderbilts and their collaterals. Along the concession road, past the new church, through the swamp, and on to the old churchyard the long procession slowly moved. We started to climb the Ridge, and we were just coming through a churchyard when rat-a-tat-tat! We will enter the churchyard, and look for a moment on the unimposing tablet. In Montgomeryshire, it is customary to rest the corpse on its way to the churchyard under one of these trees of good omen. His bodie was buried in an old churchyard of the pied friers, without any manner of exequies of funerall seruice doone for him. I cannot leave Meerut without taking the reader to the churchyard of that station. The churchyard forms the site of a Roman camp, the vallum of which may still be seen. The tombstones below were wet, the treed were dripping, the churchyard was desolate. The most fearful tragedy, however, was at Batak, where over 1000 people took refuge in the church and churchyard. And thus, croaking like the ravens when they anticipate pestilence, the ill-boding sibyls withdrew from the churchyard. But see the church in the hollow, and the folk who cluster in the churchyard! But having entered, the confusion and bedevilment was ten times worse than even in the churchyard itself. In an epitaph in high wycombe churchyard, life is compared to the working of a clock. For I never could show myself at bridgend, if through my means Hezekiah found the sea his churchyard. There is a pleasant view from the churchyard over Solway Firth to the Cumberland mountains. Show More Sentences He went first to the churchyard, where his mother's remains had been that day interred. In it were discovered a number of human bones, which were reinterred in the churchyard. All is gone to ruin since my blindness, and especially since Angelique left me for the churchyard, never to come back. Near the churchyard, and in the middle of a garden, stood a well-built though small house, which I had no doubt was the parsonage. I don't know which is the nearest churchyard, but a gravestone there, wherever it is, and a date, perhaps two years hence, perhaps twenty. It was a lodging-house in Church Street, overlooking the churchyard. Admirers of yew trees should make a point of visiting Bignor churchyard. He passed on through the churchyard, where, amongst the new headstones, he saw one of a somewhat superior design to the rest. His hunting ground is more full of game than the churchyard where the UnDead woman sleeps, and the one old man watch. The first Redwing of winter was in a Pen Llyn garden on the 13th, and more were with Fieldfares in Conwy Valley's Caerhun churchyard. Her remains were brought for interment to the churchyard of alloa. I had ascertained the exact point at which the little churchyard lay. The rain was still falling as the carriage stopped at the churchyard. They waited in the churchyard for the minister's appearance. Loutherbourg, the painter, found a resting-place in its churchyard. Here's de Man that wants to plant Gray's l-e-g in a churchyard. Hast thou ever helped carry a bier, and heard the coffin knock against the churchyard gate, going in? Once in the churchyard I made my way on tiptoe to the graveside. It was planted on the north side of the ancient burial mound which is now the churchyard, probably in honour of a neolithic chieftain. The mowld o' the churchyard don't hold any that the folk shrink away from, more. Show More Sentences Eight years later Robert Southey was laid beside her in the churchyard under the shadow of Skiddaw. Who drinks Hollands alone, and in a churchyard on such a night as this? His grave is still shown in the churchyard of St. Johns, Nuremberg. A stonemason working in the churchyard came to my assistance. On the top of the churchyard wall is a tombstone, on which are cut in high relief, two ravens, or such-like birds. Cruncher did not assist at the closing sports, but had remained behind in the churchyard, to confer and condole with the undertakers. If she had, I should have felt as if I ought to do it, but Plumfield is about as gay as a churchyard, you know, and I'd rather be excused. And there really was a churchyard outside under some cloisters, for I saw the gravestones from the staircase window. It was only the tidiest and the greenest mound in all the churchyard. After half an hour's cooling in the churchyard, I saw the chariot coming back. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Should he meet a stranger coming from the churchyard with a quick step, he is morally convinced that the stranger is 'with a blush retiring,' as monumentally directed. They were carrying young Gordon to the churchyard to bury him. The grey church looked greyer, and the lonely churchyard lonelier. Before we were out of the churchyard she broke from me and ran back. Toddlers have created a colourful garden in a Brighouse churchyard. On one side of this wide street were high houses with wonderful shop fronts, and on the other was an old church and churchyard, surrounded by iron palisades. I saw a black box lying in the churchyard, with skull and cross-bones painted on it, and was told that this was used in transferring remains to the cellar. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with churchyard What is the plural of churchyard? What is the noun for churchyard? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words churchy churchwoman churchwarden churchward church-state church's church-yard churidar churidars churinga churl churlish 10-letter Words Starting With c ch chu chur churc church churchy churchya churchyar