The graveyard of Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Halifax.
There used to be a number of cottages at the north-east corner of the graveyard.
A spring in the cellar of the T' Cat i' th' Window – the water of which flowed through the graveyard – fed a well used by a community of 800 people in the nearby Berry Lane area.
In the churchyard are some gravestones bearing the date 1566.
The gravestone of John Logan – who died in 1830 at the age of 105 – lies below the sundial
The graveyard was closed to burials [31st May 1861], although Catherine Grace Doherty Waterhouse was buried in the family vault in 1916.
After 1861, Stoney Royd Cemetery then Lister Lane Cemetery were used.
The following people, and/or members of their family, were buried and/or have memorials here:
Items in black are not linked to existing entries in Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion. The date of interment is shown in parentheses
See Halifax Parish Church: Railings and Burials inside Halifax Parish Church
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