Friday 14th January 2022
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Report written by Ed Field (he/him)
A herioc four of us (including Julius at his first ever sesssion!) managed to tear ourselves away from our desks on a Friday lunchtime for some grave clearing at the beautiful St Mary's Church in Walthamstow village.
GoodGym Waltham Forest are regulars here and head gardener Tim met us promptly, gave us a selection of fierce looking tools and showed us to an area of the graveyard that needed a little TLC.
We spent a lovely 45 minutes clearing Ivy and brambles from the graves, chatting away and genereally enjoying being outside the sunshine.
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The churchyard contains numerous interesting graves and four listed tombs, and is divided into four railed and enclosed areas with public access to only two; it is bisected by paths which are in frequent public use. There are some 1300 visible monuments in and around the church, and it is thought that over 26,000 burials took place here. The first church of St Mary Walthamstow was founded in the early-12th century on the site of an older church. The current building is largely 16th-century with later alterations. The timber-framed Ancient House near the church probably stands on the site of the original Manor of Walthamstow.
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