churchyards
Graves beside steeples
Churchyards are the grounds surrounding a church, especially the enclosed areas used for burials.
The term evokes old stone churches with weathered headstones and overgrown paths: They walked through the churchyard to visit her grandmother's grave.
Churchyards appear frequently in Gothic literature and ghost stories, carrying associations of death, quiet, and the passage of time.
Basis for justification
- wallsVertical enclosing structures
- gatesMovable barriers at openings
- pathsCourses for travel
- treesWoody plants with trunks
yews · grass · moss · lichen · ivy · benches · lychgate · stone
Burial sites
- headstonesBurial site monuments
- tombstonesMemorial stones over graves
- plotsSecret plans or storylines
- intermentsActs of burial
burials · epitaphs · memorials · markers · mausoleums · crypts · vaults · funeral
Local church community
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- VictorianOf a prim era
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
genealogy · ancestors · records · inscriptions · archaeology · antiquarian · restoration · conservation
grounds
Basis for justification
trees · yews · grass · moss · lichen · ivy · benches · lychgate · stone · iron
graves
Burial sites
- headstonesBurial site monuments
- tombstonesMemorial stones over graves
- plotsSecret plans or storylines
interments · burials · epitaphs · memorials · markers · mausoleums · crypts · vaults · funeral · mourners
parish
Local church community
preservation · genealogy · ancestors · records · inscriptions · archaeology · antiquarian · restoration · conservation · listed
spooky
Unsettlingly strange
crows · mist · shadows · midnight · ghosts · spirits · apparitions · supernatural · macabre · Edgar Allan Poe
- gravesgravestones, headstones, gravestone, tombstones, headstone
- burial groundsgraves, tombs, crypts, vaults, graveyards
- English ChurchEnglish Reformation, Archbishop of Canterbury, Book of Common Prayer, Thomas Cranmer, Act of Supremacy
- public spacespark, plaza, street, city parks, public parks
- snow-coveredpeaks, mountaintops, summits, slopes, ridges
- genealogyfamily trees, family history, descendants, ancestors, ancestry tracing
churchyardsmemorial parks
Burial grounds with lawns
potter's fields · national cemeteries · crematoriums · columbaria · military cemeteries
churchyardsindustrial sites
Facilities for manufacturing goods
parking lots · junkyards · landfills · dumping grounds · vacant lots
churchyardsplaygrounds
Outdoor spaces for children
schoolyards · fairgrounds · sports fields · marketplaces · village greens