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Graves at St Peter the Poor Fisherman, Revelstoke

Just to north east of the church lies this small child's grave, the burial place of Rupert Baring.

One of Lord Revelstoke’s sons, Maurice Baring, was a popular early 20th century author. In his autobiography he wrote about this small grave:

“In 1878 when I was 4 years old, another brother was born, Rupert, in August, but he died in October of the same year. He was buried at Revelstoke Church, a church not used anymore, and then in ruins except for one aisle which was roofed in, and provided with pews. It nestled by the seashore, right down on the rocks, grey and covered with ivy, and surrounded by quaint tombstones that seemed to have been scattered haphazard in the thick grass and the nettles.”

Although there are some gravestones from the 17th and 18th centuries, a large proportion of the graves are dated around the 1840s due to a serious cholera epidemic which decimated the population of Noss Mayo.