Sutton-in-Ashfield St Michael and All Angels

Churchyard

The church site in 1913	The church site in 1938
Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

The original churchyard covered an area of 0.22 ha. The church was built in the northern part of the churchyard over the period 1886-1909 and by 1913 there were two Sunday Schools to the east of it. A large parish hall was built immediately to the south in 1926.

A low stone wall marks the boundary of the churchyard on the west and north sides. The wrought iron entrance gate dates from 1960 and has stone piers; it is located in the north-west corner of the churchyard.

From 1921 to 2009 a war memorial in the shape of a stone cross was located in front of the west wall of the church. In 2009 it was restored and erected on a new site 150 m to the north-west of the church at the corner of Mansfield Road and Downing Street.

There were no burials in the churchyard.

Three blocks of sheltered housing were built inside the churchyard to the south and east of the church building during the mid-1990s.