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About a dozen stones show the occupation of
those commemorated Occupation Grave Number(s) Barrister 111 Solicitor 96 Rector 21, 94, 95 Army Sergeant 63, 69 Doctor 21 Petty Officer R.N. 39 Gentleman 22 The three Spaxton Rectors commemorated in the churchyard are: Perry Fairfax Nursey, William Gordon, and Louis Bush. It is interesting to compare the Christian names of the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries with those popular today. (See list of Christian and other forenames on the gravestones) Many of these names are still fashionable today, but few of us can count among our friends and aquaintances a Jonas, a Barnabas, a Lott, a Meshach, a Nathan, an Adolphus, an Asenath, a Siraanie, or a Letitia. With the exception of one wooden cross all the memorials in the churchyard are made of stone. The oldest are limestone - probably Doulting stone, which can be seen in so many Somerset churches. In the late Eighteenth Century and early Nineteenth local sandstones were used, but the development of the railway system throughout the country during the latter half of the Nineteenth Century enabled stone to be transported over great distances at low cost and hence there are about 50 marble memorials in the churchyard dating from this period, the material for which probably came from Italy. Presumably the improvement in transport and in tools explains the popularity of granite memorials, which can also be found in Spaxton. |
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