Why we are not cutting the north verge until August this year.
A small change in our mowing calendar, a long letter from the local botany group, and a note for anyone wondering why the grass is taller than usual.
News & stories
Short letters from the churchyard.
Each quarter, the trustees write a short letter to the parish — about the weather, the stones, the rota, and any news worth reporting. We archive every issue here.
The lych-gate is back on its hinges.
After a long summer of fundraising, a wet October, and one cancelled appointment with the joiner, the gate is sound again. Thank you, all 84 of you.
Our 2025 yew measurements, in plain numbers.
Philippa Rew’s annual report, with girths, photographs, and a long footnote about the cleft in the south tree’s trunk.
From the archive
In praise of cow parsley.
The case for leaving the lower hedge a little wilder than the diocesan handbook suggests.
The 2025 working calendar, in one page.
A printable list of every working morning, every meeting, and every cup of tea, year to year.
Eleven lichen species new to our churchyard.
A footnote to the 2024 survey: a brief field note on what changed and why.
Eleanor Murray-Smith named 2024 bursary mason.
The Stonemason’s Bursary award for 2024 goes to a young Dorset lettercutter for the Worthington memorial.
A small cleft in the south yew.
The 2024 measurements, with a more detailed note about the south tree’s southern trunk.
Opening the lych-gate appeal.
How we set the £4,200 target, why we wrote to 84 people first, and what we learned from the 1987 re-shingling.
The yew in light snow, and what we did not do.
Why we paused the February clearing-up day in 2024, and the case for letting weather take the lead.
Hedge-laying with three new pairs of hands.
A short report from the November 2023 working morning, with notes on how to lay a stake-and-binder.
Three stones lifted on the south side.
The 2023 conservation list, the limewash batch we used, and what we learned about ground levels.
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