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NAME: Carol Ann Smith TITLE: North Cerney Parish, Showing Parish North Side and Parish Back DATE: March 29, 2007 RIGHTS STATUS: Has the right to distribute DESCRIPTION: In the North Cerney Parish Churchyard, "There was a great fear of the north side and no burials took place there.  The coffin was taken out through the north door - it still is, the only time this door is used - but burials now take place on all sides and as it is now the custom for indidvual stones to be erected (this dates from the 17th century) it is impossible to re-use the ground as they did in medieval times." "The Churchyard Cross dates from the 14th century, but has been completely restored within the past ten years." "The Cross was originally the memorial for all those buried on the south side" (All Saints Church, North Cerney (Church brochure) Rewritten by Mrs. V. A. Patuck, 1989, from information gathered by Canon A. James Turner, Vicar of North Cerney Church from 1952 to 1973.) WIKI: FamilySearch Wiki