Church burials resume
Friday 29th January 2010, 11:30AM GMT.
A church in the Black Country is to start reusing parts of its grounds for burials because of growing demand for space.
Hundreds of graves could be made available at Holy Trinity Church, in Heath Town, Wolverhampton, for the first burials in 20 years.
The scheme would allow unmarked graves more than 50 years old to be “over-buried” with new ones.
It will only affect the area known as the “old ground” immediately around the church, and will not include graves that have a headstone or memorial, or which have more recent burials.
The church says there is a demand from parishioners to be buried there and the practice is common in older churches such as Holy Trinity, which was built in 1852.
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HOLY TRINITY IS A BEAUTIFUL CHURCH AND THE GROUNDS WOULD BENEFIT FROM NEW GRAVES IT WILL LOOK CLEANER AND MORE MAINTINABLE.
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i think its disgusting two allow this the people who had there graves there are some welthy people and then you have the poor graves with no head stone just a wooden cross and then the children graves with no head stones i still remmber going two heath town baths back in the 90s with me mom and i asked her a question why do the small crosses without names on and the big crosses doesnt she said the big wooden crosses are the adults and the smaller ones are the childrens.
do we not have a garantee in life two be left alone in our final resting places ???
it really sickens me two the bone why dont the council have ones like in america where they are stacked in a tomb.
oh people what will happen if this was at busbury cemertory would you allow this two happen
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