I said, in the 365 project post on Sunday, that I had visited another of our church yards and taken some pictures. The church in question is Andreas, in the north of the island. Like some of our other churches it houses some early Christian, and pagan, crosses and slabs. I mainly took pictures of two of the norse crosses, and a few out in the ( Read more... )

When I posted the pictures of Bride Old Church Yard earlier this week I commented that I had also taken some in the newer part of the graveyard. The original churchyard runs east from the sanctuary end of the church, the newer one is basically the width of a small field running along the north side of both church and old churchyard ( Read more... )

This is another post of one of the island's old churchyards - this time Bride Parish in the north of the island - where my mother's family have lived, and been buried, for at least the last 300 years - probably longer. I went particularly to look for the gravestone of my great-great-great-grandfather - which I know is there - I've seen it. But ( Read more... )

In yesterday's post I had a picture of Odd's Cross, a piece of ninth century Viking carving from Old Kirk Braddan Church. When I stopped by there on Saturday I took a few more photos than just that one. They include some pictures of the church yard and a couple more thousand year old crosses.

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