In 2004 a team of volunteers from the village surveyed all the grave markers inside the church and in the churchyard. All the text that we were able to decipher along with a large selection of photos of the churchyard and individual gravestones can be found on this website. Scroll down to find out how to access the information .

What we did

The stones are described using the methodology set out in Harold Mytum’s Recording and Analysing Graveyards (Practical Handbook in Archaeology 15).

Of course the survey does not represent a full list of all burials in St Mary’s Church and churchyard. Many burials had no lasting grave markers and some stones are no longer legible.

Itteringham parish registers containing burial records survive back to 1558 and the older records are available on microfilm in the Norfolk Record Office in Norwich, should you want to do a more thorough search for specific people.

In order to conduct the survey, the churchyard was split into defined sections, which were then mapped on a plan - see link list below.

A selection of general photos of the churchyard were also taken from the church tower and again at ground level - see link list below.

How to find a specific gravestone

There are two ways to find a particular surname or gravestone from the survey.

Either download and search the pdf file which contains all the text from the stones - see link list below.

Or use the site search engine at the bottom of this page to find surnames of interest. Remember that using the site search engine will find all references across the Itteringham.com site not just those in the churchyard survey section.

Photographs of individual gravestones

A gravestone entry with a P alongside indicates that there is a photograph on the site. Use the unique reference number of each gravestone to find the matching photograph in the pages below.

So do not be disappointed if there is no photo or nothing legible on a photo of a stone you are interested in.

If you want a full size image of any of the photos we have shown you can purchase one - see box at the foot of this page.

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