The details on these Web pages were compiled by recording the inscriptions on each grave in 2004. Where inscriptions had become illegible reference was made to two previous surveys: that conducted by members of the Harby Women's Institute in 1982, which records names, dates and relationships but not the full inscriptions; and that conducted by Rebecca Morant for her dissertation presented for an Honours degree of B.A. at Nottingham University in 1995; this contains a verbatim record of most inscriptions. In notes on individual inscriptions in the following pages these two previous surveys are referred to as "the 1982 survey" and "the 1995 survey". The work of these previous authors is acknowledged with thanks. The 1982 survey is available for study in the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland  http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/community/museums/record office.htm, (accession number DE 2367/27). A copy of the 1995 survey by Rebecca Morant together with the original gravestone recording sheets, plans and some rubbings is available there (accession number DE 6784/1-4). A copy of the version on paper of the Henry Clarke 2005 survey is also deposited there (accession number DE 6783) together with lists cross referencing the numbering system used in 1995 with the numbering system used in the 1982 and 2005 surveys (accession number DE 6784/5). 

The format (punctuation, capitalisation, etc.) on the headstones has been followed as exactly as possible except that surnames have been capitalised and verses, etc., italicised. Ends of lines have been indicated by a / only in the case of verses, where the end of the metrical line rather than the physical line has been marked (though the two are usually the same).

The version of this document which is available on the Web is intended to exclude burials from 1980 onwards to protect the privacy of relatives. However, a full version, held by the churchwardens, may be consulted. 

In the plan of the churchyard each grave has an identifying number. In the 'old' churchyard there is an upper case letter (A to V), which indicates a particular zone, followed by a number. Since the numbers are themselves unique, the prefixing letters have been omitted in the following index. The 'new' churchyard has been planned to contain six rows of graves, designated WA, WB, WC, WD, WE and WF, each row being numbered from 1 to, approximately, 40. Hence for these it has been necessary to include the prefix letters in the index. For the purposes of this document, the memorials within the church have been sequentially numbered with the prefix Ψ.

I am particularly grateful to Leslie Cram for his advice and encouragement generally and for revisiting the graves to check my work, and for spotting my many errors. Human frailty has doubtless allowed some errors still to pass unnoticed and I should appreciate receiving details of any that are found.  Please contact through the webcaptain leslie.cram@talk21.com. 


Henry Clark
March 2005