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News & Goings On
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6/8/2007
ST. PETER'S CHURCHYARD SLAMMED
Ian Marley of Coventry writes:
I read your article (from 2003 click here) concerning the state of St Peters Churchyard in Upper Gornal and felt I should add my shock and anger.
I went there on the 14th July 2007 to visit my Grandparent's grave for the first time in twenty years. It has never been the best kept Cemetery but I could not believe what I was looking at. There was a thick wall to wall carpet of ivy mingled with deep grass covering the rear half of the Cemetery and the graves were in such a state of disrepair that it was dangerous. Some vaults were gaping while earth on several had sunk to such an extent that you could not see the bottom.
What my proud Gornalite Forebears would have said about this I hate to think - I couldn't find their graves to try and find out.
I left the Church devastated and angry. No doubt we shall have these conversations for as long as the grass grows, ivy creeps and the Church shies away from its responsibility for maintaining these graveyards.
It is about time the Vicar at St Peters became proactive and galvanised his congregation into feeling proud about their Church. No one can be proud of that cemetery, it is an absolute disgrace and will only get worse. Perhaps being a Christian means more than an hours' worship every Sunday.
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