Monument record 650/1 - Friends' Burial Ground

Friends' Burial Ground. The date 1657 is on the inner face of the east wall of the Burial Ground.There are several prostrate gravestones (1). The wall of the Burial Ground is probably late 17th century, of three courses of large blocks of red sandstone with flush rounded copings.Plain square stone gateposts, boarded gate.The burial ground contains one exposed 17th century stone slab inscribed - 'Here lyeth interred the body of John Starkey late of Stretton gent who departed this life the 10th day of April in the 44 year of his age anno domini 1686: post funera virtus.' (2) Full architectural description (2) and (3).
Square enclosure bounded by 19th-century sandstone wall. Monumnets include:
[1] John Starkey Gent., 1686, ledger stone, below inscription is a small shield charged with a stork.
[2] Small slabs 1849-1951 and unmarked mounds (4).

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ67NW2/1964 (Index). SCH2487.

<2> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /5/122 (Report). SCH1934.

<3> Department for the Environment, Various, Provisional List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /46/11/5 1964 (Report). SCH2744.

<4> Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME), 1994, An Inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in the North of England, Cheshire Number 142 (Book). SCH4548.