| Description |
Annual free guided graveyard tour at 2pm on Saturday 29th June. Meet at the church.
The graveyard is over 6 acres, and contains the remains of over 10,000 people, mostly buried between 1834 and 1950.
There are 53 war graves (49 from World War 1, and 4 from World War 2). Near the Vainor Road entrance, there is a memorial, along with the graves of 23 soldiers from the nearby Wharncliffe War Hospital. The other war graves are scattered through the graveyard in family graves.
We have 30 victims of the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864, as well as 6 headstones which mention the reservoir bursting.
A large grass area contains the remains of over 2500 paupers from the South Yorkshire Asylum, buried between 1872 and 1948. |
