Benger Trails
4. Churchyard

From the north-west corner of the churchyard you can safely see several points of interest along Seagry Road.

This 1920s photograph is looking along Seagry Road towards the churchyard, with an old car parked alongside the churchyard wall.

The photo was taken from outside La Flambé, when it used to be a pub called The Vintage. On the right is the Old School House, with the bell tower over the porch.

The Churchyard Cross is classified as a Grade II Listed Building. The listing states: 'War memorial cross, 1920 by H. Brakspear, on stone steps, probably the base of medieval cross. Cross has square base, octagonal tapering shafts, foliate carving to cap and small gabled and pinnacled'

Three Monuments in the Churchyard, south of the Church, are Grade II Listed.
They are three chest tombs, the earliest from the late 18th century, including one for the Engles family and one for the Hibbard family.

Three other Monuments from the 18th and 19th centuries, east and north east of the Church, are also Grade II Listed. They include the Lanfear family monument and the Messiter family monument.

In the churchyard itself you can find several other gravestones that date back over a hundred years; for example, the family of Dr Butler, who was the village doctor in the mid-1800s, and whose family still lived in The White House until the 1920s.