The cemetery attached to St. Mary’s Church is somewhat unusual as the majority of the graves have been dug on the incline of the Hill, on its densely-wooded Northerly slope; close by is the appropriately-named exclusive gated community of Lychgate Manor. As noted in yesterday’s post, a number of Harlow and Horsingdon’s famed occult practitioners - including members of the Boreham family - have their final resting place in the cemetery.
The overgrown hillside burying ground is also notable for a number of curious, cylindrical, coffin-shaped gravetop monuments - all of which sit atop graves whose markers bear no names or dates. Rumour has it that these stone cylinders are not, in fact, ornamental in nature, but are in actuality squat stone sarcophagi within which certain remains were once interred; stranger still is the claim that the stonemason whose services were employed in the construction of such bizarre stone coffins was also requested to line them with lead. It is difficult to fathom who - or what - might be inhumed within these incongrous tombs - or indeed what abnormally praeternatural radiations their lead lining might prove an apotropaic barrier against...
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