PREFACE
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In 1978 Alan Anderson drew the attention of the Spaxton Society
to the poor condition of some of the gravestones in Spaxton churchyard.
Quite a number of the inscriptions had been lost over the years and
the frosts of the severe winter of 1977-78 had caused even more damage
to some of the stones. Although gravestones give the impression of enduring for ever, the life of many of them is not all that much longer than that of our own short span on this Earth. It was obvious to anyone with a sense of local history that a complete record of all the tombstone inscriptions should be made before even more of them became illegible and lost for ever. The major part of this monograph consists of the records of the inscriptions, but one cannot spend so many hours doing the recording in the churchyard without going back, at least in one's imagination, to the people whose names are inscribed and to their times. For this reason I have included a section dealing with some of the more interesting observations I made while I was in the churchyard and subsequently while examining the records I had made. Recent small stone tablets on the south side of the tower are not recorded here, neither are the gravestones in the cemetery across the road from the church. Most of the recording was done in the summer and autumn of 1978 and if this work has little historical value or interest for other people, it would have been worthwhile for the hours of peace and quiet it provided and for the opportunity to think and to meditate! |
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