Lynn Sat Jan 12, 2013 1:51 am
Hello
Yes old graves and non visited graves. There are so many churches there in England and the younger generations are not attending in a lot of areas so there is no income for them. This one was only open on Sundays. I did not get to see inside.
It is in Trowbridge where I was staying I was drawn to go here right off the plane on the way to me friends place. There is very little history on it like so many there and they are "calling" to WWI and WWII I had when I was in England. There is a memorial cross there for the war dead, but "their grave stones were removed". That is what so gives that feeling of "love lost" as any surviving spouse has lost that connection.....for WWII and that feeling of lost trust. I very much felt that. To remove gravestones to me is like an act of murder in the way it feels.
It is fine to put of a memorial but leave the markers in place even if they rot to the Earth again that energy is there forever.
Holy Trinity Church Trowbridge
Holy Trinity Church, Trowbridge is a parish church in the Church of England located in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. It was completed in 1838. It is commonly known in Trowbridge as ‘The Church on the Roundabout’, as it is entirely encircled by a one-way traffic system.
The Trowbridge manor which included the land on which the church stands was bought in 1807 from the fifth Duke of Rutland, who retained the patronage. It had been noted that the existing parish church could barely hold a twelfth of the 12,000 population, and so plans were set in motion to build a new, larger church. In 1835 fund-raising appeals were begun by Francis Fulford, the then-rector of the parish church of St. James, with estimated construction costs of £4000.
A Portland stone cross was erected as a memorial to the fallen of World War I from the parish. It bears 147 names in total, and was dedicated in 1921. Many of the gravestones were removed in 1977.