2016

TQ7575 : 'Pip's graves' in Cooling Churchyard

taken 7 years ago, near to Cooling, Medway, England

'Pip's graves' in Cooling Churchyard
'Pip's graves' in Cooling Churchyard
St James Church at Cooling is one of the churches which it is thought featured in the opening scenes of Great Expectations (St Mary's at Higham is the other). Charles Dickens describes the lozenge graves by the door as "little stone lozenges each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their [parents’] graves".

The further ten children's graves all died between 1771 and 1790 before the age of 17 months. They are buried around the grave of their parents Michael and Jane Comport. The three graves on this side of the gravestone belong to the children of John Rose-Baker and Sarah Anne who was the daughter of Michael Comport. They died aged one, three and five months in the mid 19th century.


St James Church is now looked after by the Churches Conservation Trust - see LinkExternal link

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TQ7575, 204 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Marathon   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Monday, 17 October, 2016   (more nearby)
Submitted
Wednesday, 19 October, 2016
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 7562 7593 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:27.3066N 0:31.5791E
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OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 7560 7593
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