Caring for Gods Acre

At last, a beautiful day that felt like #spring The birds were singing and the Snowdrops were flowering! The promise of what’s to come! @HantsIWWildlife @godsacre @BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour

Save the date! June 7th-15th marks this year’s Churches Count on Nature 2025. @ARochaUK @godsacre Arbedwch y dyddiad! Mae Mehefin 7fed-15fed yn nodi Eglwysi’n Cyfrif ar Natur 2025 eleni. Do you want to get involved? Ydych chi eisiau cymryd rhan? caringforgodsacre.org.uk/churches-count…

Snow this morning ⛄ #StMichaelsChurchGlascoed #churchescountonnature @MChurchcare @visit_mon @ChurchesCymru @cadwwales @friendschurches @godsacre @MonMeadows @penpedairheol1

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿New Scottish Deathways digital Conference at @aberdeenuni next April. Submit your papers and ideas by 12 January. All details here 👇 abdn.eventsair.com/deathinscotlan… @Arnar26

SAVE THE DATE. Caring for God's Acre and the Ancient Yew Group are collaborating on Love your Yew Week on 8th - 14th February 2025. In its first year the project will focus on dealing with ivy on yews, and you can find out more by visiting caringforgodsacre.org.uk/love-your-yew-…

Foraging for wreath material! Looking forward to our online wreath making workshop with Wildegoose Nursery on 10th December caringforgodsacre.org.uk/event/online-w…

We think that trees are tremendous any time, but #NationalTreeWeek is a fab chance to celebrate the ones in your burial ground. We've got some great ideas for kids activities to learn about trees, how to ID them, measure them & their role in food chains: caringforgodsacre.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

Create a Christmas wreath from your garden and hedgerows using Nature’s bounty - Laura will show you how to imaginatively adorn your front door. Limited to 40 places - £15 members, £25 non-members. Book at: bit.ly/cfga-wreath-ma…

@StEdmundsRoch @nwibofficial1 @rochdaleinbloom @RochdaleCouncil @The_RHS @TheCCT @DioManchester congratulations!!

We are absolutely delighted with this award from #BritainInBloom #RHS IYN @nwibofficial1 #StEdmundsRoch #SpotlandAndFalinge #Rochdale Next stop Thursday for the urban category #KeepBlooming @rochdaleinbloom @godsacre @RochdaleCouncil @The_RHS @TheCCT @DioManchester

fabulous fungi in churchyards at the moment!

Day 31 of #31DaysofGraves is skull We couldn't resist this little white puffball mushroom who's been nibbled into skull shape (probably by a passing slug). Found by @lukaslarge while doing a Fungi Foray for @FriendsKHandWL last Saturday!

Day 30 of #31DaysofGraves is Scrollwork The Keills chapel, Argyllshire contains nearly 40 stones dating from 700AD -1500AD including the freestanding Keills cross, many of which are decorated with intricate scrolling knotwork. historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/…

@poetrytithe It's a bit special isn't it? Not surprising that an Arts and Crafts inspired stone was made in Birmingham though. The father Lichfield Watton Sutcliffe designed it himself. cemeteries.jewelleryquarter.net/tours_trails_p…

Day 28 of #31DaysofGraves is Died Elsewhere The Sutcliffe family memorial in Warstone Lane Cemetery, Birmingham is carved to look like a tree stump complete with ferns and ivy, it includes their son Isherwood Edmond Sutcliffe who was wounded in action and buried at Rouen in 1916

Day 29 of #31DaysofGraves is Old We love how much character this gravestone from 1701 has, although perhaps the stonemason could have planned the layout better! Margrear (Margreat?) Morgan died aged 74 and is buried at St Lawrence, in Church Stretton.

@2peters @graffeg_books @Natures_Voice @BTO_GBW @CUPOTYawards @OMSYSTEMcameras @BBCSpringwatch gorgeous!

Next door’s copper beech leaves the perfect autumn bokeh. Om1mk2, 150-400 and 1.4x. One of the last shots for my garden wildlife book out in spring 25 with @graffeg_books @Natures_Voice @BTO_GBW @CUPOTYawards @OMSYSTEMcameras @BBCSpringwatch

Day 27 of #31DaysofGraves is Inside The Beauchamp tomb inside Worcester Cathedral is our pick for this theme, because where else can you see a Black Swan used as a pillow? There is a lot of debate about who is represented here and why a swan was chosen: worcestercathedrallibrary.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-be…

Day 26 of #31DaysofGraves is unusual This gravestone for Philip Antoine Bourlay in Longden Road Cemetery appears to be made from a glacial erratic boulder! Have you seen other examples of this?

Day 25 of #31DaysofGraves is Torch Thought we would share a historical photo today- these are the gates of the Birmingham General Cemetery, now known as Key Hill, with ouroboros and inverted torch designs. They are Grade II listed by @HistoricEngland historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-li…

Day 24 of #31DaysofGraves is Mason This beautiful piece of masonry was carved by Bristol and West Memorials, the lettering was hand cut and took 3 weeks. It is at @ArnosValeCem marking burials of babies from the 1950s-70s and was erected by SANDS in 2019. arnosvale.org.uk/new-memorial-f…