This
page is about the old graveyard at Rowland's Methodist Church in Summerseat.
Unfortunately this graveyard is officially closed, and it has not been
possible to enter this graveyard for many years now, this is due to the
ground and also some of the large headstones being very unstable,
and also as can be seen in the
above photo,
it is really overgrown to the extent that it is not
possible to enter. I did try for over two years to get something done,
so as we may once more visit the final resting places of our
dear family ancestors to pay our respects. I was in contact with
the Methodist Church Council regarding having the old graveyard
renovated, but all to no avail.
NOTICE
I have been in contact recently with somebody else who has an
interest in the old lower graveyard at Rowlands Methodist
Church, Summerseat, Lancashire, and he has setup
a "Friends of Rowlands Lower Graveyard, Summerseat,
Lancashire" email group which you can join by sending an email
to:
rowlands-subscribe@topica.com
If you have an interest in the old lower graveyard at
Rowlands, then I would ask that you join this group, more
information will be posted on this site shortly.
I have great pleasure in being able to list many photos, which have been sent to me by someone who has
really gone out of their way to assist many of us that are
researching our ancestors from Summerseat, as we are now able to
see many of the headstones that are in the old graveyard, I have
placed 30 grave photos in each of the galleries. I do
really hope that you find these great photos of interest, and I
am sure that you are as grateful as I am to the wonderful
thoughts of the person who has taken the time to sort these out
for me to show on this web site. This is not a full list of the
graves, as unfortunately, some of the headstones have fallen
over, and the inscriptions are face down, and so it is not
possible to collect a full photo history of the old graveyard.
There are now 95 graves listed in the Headstone Photo
Galleries.
[ Headstone Gallery 1 ] [ Headstone Gallery 2 ] [ Headstone Gallery 3 ]
