Flint wall and 19 attached pet tombs

MATERIALS: the wall is flint rubble and brick and the pet tombs are ashlar.

PLAN: the 19 tombs are laid out in a line running south to north with the adjoining wall on the east side.

EXTERIOR: the tombs all consist of ashlar kerbs on three sides, with the fourth side formed by the existing flint wall. They are similar in size although the later tombs are slightly smaller. The most recent is the smallest tomb, with decoratively chamfered kerbs, and is the only one with an ashlar cover between the kerbs. Starting at the southern end they have incised inscriptions as follows-

“LADDIE 1899” “LEO 1898” “DUKE 1898” “JOHN DIED APRIL 1891” “LITTLE JOHN DIED – (date illegible) The next two tombs are partially buried and the inscriptions cannot be read. “JIM DIED 1904” “JACK AGED 11” (date illegible) “CHAPPIE BORN 1897 DIED 1907” “CHRIS BORN- DIED-“ (dates illegible) “JOCK BORN 1899 DIED NOVEMBER 19TH 1911” “SNIPPET BORN 1899 DIED FEBRUARY 24 1913” “DON BORN 1903 DIED OCTOBER 23 1911” “JO BORN 1911 DIED MAY 2 1921” “RUFUS DIED SEPTEMBER 1922”

The wall to which the tombs are attached is of flint rubble with three courses of blue bricks at the top and a coping of blue bricks laid on edge. It is supported by a number of shallow brick buttresses on the east side. The wall has areas of different sized flint, some in nodule form and others knapped, and its thickness varies, indicative of a number of historical phases of rebuilding. The south end has an area of machine-made red brick rebuilding from the late C20.