A project to record all of our local Memorial Inscriptions.

2012 Update - the weather's improving and we're to be found lurking amongst the gravestones again.  If you're interested in joining us please get in touch!

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Transcribing Milton's Burial Registers

For those less-willing to crawl around amongst the gravestones we are also transcribing the Milton Burial Registers from the comfort of the HRGS Research Room. 

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This project is to study and record the 'graffiti' carved into the stonework of local churches. This is not the true graffitti one might expect with modern day vandalism, but a mix of unofficial devotional carvings and masons' marks. The devotional carvings can range from complicated images of people, animals and ships etc., to simple geometric shapes. 

Local Churches have several examples of such 'graffitti' and the team will record each incidence and search for underlying patterns in the positioning etc. Each Church will  be used to form comparisons of style, date and position.

A forum has been set up on this site to form a database of dated examples, to help with dating finds, and registered viewers can see the examples of research already carried out under the research pages.

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We will be compiling a contemporary record of the listed and historically important buildings around the Sittingbourne area.  We will be holding mini-courses to teach those taking part how to effectively photograph and record the buildings, including any interesting features and their geographic context.  Those who wish to investigate the building further can then do so and add the information they discover to the record. 

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Transcribing Local Wills

If you'd like to get involved with research, from home, then this is for you!  Transcribing local wills, from PDFs, for inclusion on our website.

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Archive Cataloguing Project