For those interested in local history and ancestry a CD has been
compiled. It includes transcribed registers of Births, Baptisms and
Deaths dating from 1560 - 1837 the earliest books have been photographed
(because of their delicate condition) - you will find interesting
extracts taken from old minute and accounts books, taking us back to our
Great-grandparents day and beyond. You will also find a 'potted' history
of Dundry and St. Michael's Church.
By purchasing this CD you are helping us to keep St. Michael's Church
alive for future generations.
Cost £7.50 plus postage. - a nice Christmas Stocking extra!! Available from Janhamb@aol.com
During the summer a group of volunteers transformed St. Michael’s Churchyard in Dundry to a haven for bees and other pollinators. The idea was to encourage them to the area with a mixture of wild flowers and annuals.
Plans are in place to plant a variety of bulbs including native bluebells, snowdrops and fritillaries as well as perennial plants as a more permanent attraction.
We would like to thank those people who have generously donated money to buy the bulbs and also to those you have given low growing perennial plants.
Since our experiment in 2012 when we sowed wildflower seeds and planted bulbs in the churchyard; we have this year been planting perennial evergreen rockery plants and some herbaceous plants in the hope that they will be there each year. Where we didn’t have enough plants earlier in the year, we sowed some wildflower seed. Below are photos that were taken during the year.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the churchyard.
Outline plan of the churchyard
Dundry Churchyard A-Z Areas 1 - 4
Some of the graves especially in Area 2 and 3 have been very difficult to read and maybe inaccurate. Should you discover any errors, please let us know and they will be corrected:
Cremations & Plaques Area 2 - Back Row Left Hand Side
Cremations & Plaques Area 2 - Left hand side Front Row
Cremations & Plaques Area 3 - Front Row Right hand Side
Cremations & Plaques Area 3 - Right Hand Side Back Row
Row 1 (one grave) & Row 4 (one grave) - Area 4
Row 20 - with Sycamore Tree - Area 4
Row 21 (continuing along from Row 20) Area 4