Childwall Cemetery in All Saints Church is one of the oldest cemeteries in Liverpool, having been established in 1894. The church is the only medieval church remaining in the Metropolitan borough of Liverpool.
The adjoining land to the North is an area known as 'Bloody Acre' and is to the left of the graveyard and is said to have been a battleground of the opposing civil war armies. It was gifted by the Salisbury Family as an overspill for the graveyard.
Burials have taken place at Childwall Church from as far back as 1557 when records began. The oldest gravestone is believed to be from 1620 and gravestones from the late 1600s can be found with legible inscriptions bearing the stories of the past. The graveyard has a steep incline and is probably 2m from the top of the slope to the bottomand is bounded by a stone wall around its perimeter, and along Childwall Lane there are three lych-gates. The three lych-gates, the oldest of which dates 1728 are still in use to this day. All Saints Church Childwall is situated at the junction of Childwall Abbey Road and Score Lane, Liverpool, L16 0JW.
The
cemetery is home to a number of notable figures, including Andrew
Barclay Walker - ( more on his life here - http://www.thefootballvoice.com/2021/07/a-liverpool-exemplar-andrew-barclay.html ); Arthur Bower Forwood - (more on his life here - http://www.thefootballvoice.com/2020/09/a-liverpool-exemplar-sir-arthur-bower.html ) and Jack Sharp, the only player to
play for one of the two big Merseyside football clubs and represent
England at both football and cricket. Jack signed for Everton from Aston Villa in 1899 and played over 300 times
for them in the next eleven years, scoring 68 league goals. After
finishing playing he opened a sports shop in Whitechapel in Liverpool,
which supplied playing strips and match balls to Everton and Liverpool.
He died of heart failure in 1938 aged just 59 and when his funeral took
place at All Saints, football clubs sent wreaths in their own
colours.
The churchyard also contains the graves of John Charles Ryle, the first Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, and his wife and Sir William Watson who was a poet who caused controversy in Liverpool in 1924 when he was invited to write a poem to raise funds for the new cathedral. The diocese did not expect what he eventually came up with, a piece criticising the fact that there were children on the city’s streets that were hardly fed and clothed, yet wealth was being spent on God. Watson was born in Yorkshire in 1858 and had a nomadic childhood, his parents eventually settling in Aigburth. He was knighted in 1917 after his writings in support of the war effort and the Prime Minister Lloyd George. However he had twice been overlooked for poet laureate due to his political leanings. When he died in 1935 he was living in Sussex, but was buried in his parents' grave in All Saints.
It is also home to a number of monuments, including the impressive Liverpool Cenotaph, a memorial dedicated to the fallen of World War I. The Churchyard contains the graves of three soldiers of the King's Liverpools, one sailor of the Royal Navy, and one man in the War service of the British Red Cross Society. Visitors to the cemetery can also explore the vast and varied landscape, including the beautiful gardens and pathways, making it a perfect place to take a peaceful stroll and admire the beauty of the area
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