Winthorpe
All Saints

Churchyard

The church is surrounded on all sides by a well-maintained churchyard which covers slightly less than one acre. The shape is a rough trapezoid, sloping inwards from west to east with the church positioned roughly centrally within the yard. The boundaries to the east and north are low, stone walls, higher on the churchyard side, capped with dressed-stone. There are stones from the previous church incorporated into these walls and in places a few courses of bricks. There is a high, stone-capped and partially rendered brick wall to the south, and a wrought iron fence to the west. All of these boundaries belong to adjoining property owners. The only entrance from Gainsborough Road into the churchyard is in the north-west corner, through a double wooden gate hung from metal fittings on brick and Ancaster stone piers. A tarmac path leads from the gate to the north door, and from there to the vestry. There are trees around all edges of the churchyard except for the southern edge, two trees planted in memoriam, and a line of shrubbery against the wall of the north aisle of the church and the west side of the porch. The rest of the area around the graves is laid to grass.

Gates to the
churchyard		 View of the north side
of the churchyard		 View of the south side
of the churchyard		 View of the west side
of the churchyard

Gravestones exist in all areas of the churchyard and date back to the first half of the 18th century. The oldest are generally made from either sandstone or slate, the latter tending to be the better preserved. There is no particular area in which graves from various centuries have been placed, although the most recent graves are in the south-east area of the churchyard, and there is an area for cremated remains along the north side of the church.

The two earliest readable gravestones are dated 1725 and 1740. Both are made from sandstone, and are in remarkably good condition. The earliest slate gravestones date from the mid 18th century, many of which are decorated with intricate carvings. Some gravestones from the 19th and 20th centuries are also impressively carved.

Thomas Keep
(1725)		 John Hoole
(1756)		 James Clark
Junior (1791)		 John and Ann
Waddington (1813)		 Jane Gilstrap (1904)

There are no Commonwealth War Graves Commission graves, but there is a memorial added at the bottom of the gravestone for John Edward and Hannah Eliza Walker, to their son John Edward Walker, Lance Sergeant in the 1st Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment, who was killed in action on 4th Oct 1917 and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium.

The Thompson
family grave

The one tomb of note, which is Grade II listed (and in the Listing Description section), is the early 19th century table top tomb for the Thompson family, situated next to the south-west corner of the church.

Burials are recorded in the following surviving registers, all except the last being kept at the Nottinghamshire Archives:

General register, 1697 – 1808

General register, 1808 – 1823

Burial register, 1813 – 1992

Burial register, 1993 onwards