The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-09-18 00:00:00

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YgovlL. Consecration of the Cemetery. —On
Tuesday last, the II th inst., the new cemetery was
consecrated by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese.
The cemetery is situate at an easy distance from the
town on the Ilininster road—between Kingston and
the Union Workhouse. Here, closely adjoining to
the turnpike-road b acres, I rood, and 15 perches
of land has been purchased by the Corporation, of
the Rev. Charles Penny, of West Coker. Of this,
somewhat more than 4 acres have been set apart in
equal proportions for the burial of members of the
established church and of dissenters. The rest--3
acres, to the left, and about an acre at the end of the
burial ground, and separated from it by an iron fence
--has been let out in allotments, to be taken in as
the future necessities of the burial ground may
require. The cemetery ground is a symmetrical
parallelogram, entered by a pair of iron and oak
gates, and having on its left hand an entrance lodge
in the Lombardic style. A broad path of twelve
feet leads to the interspoce between tEe chapels, the
ground on either side being sloping banks planted
with cypress, yews, and other trees. We may here
observe that the laying out and planting of the
cemetery, which has been performed with great taste,
is the work of Mr. Scott, nurseryman. A bank has
bean thrown up against either aide wall and thickly
planted with evergreens, so that in the course
of a few years the cemetery will be surrounded,
in addition to its stone wails, by its own
evergreen hedge. The plots have been
sown with grass and white clover, which bays pro-
duced a luxuriant aid bright herbage. The =l°
are also in the Lombardia Si* and arelluP9

be capable of holding 50 persons each. They are
very tasteful erections, having large and beautiful
porches, and being constructed of 1 eovil stone with
Barnhill dressings. Each has a central turret
carried up with a stone groinile,' , a feature that is
omisidered the most elegant anal noticeable part of
the buildings. The turrets are 30 ft high, but arc
nut designed for bells. It was intended, we believe,
that the two chapels should he cennected by a spring.
Rug arch, the effect of which would have crowned
and perfected the very pretty view from the road.
The stone carving about the chaliels embrace appro.
priate designs. flicre is, in die episcopal chapel,
the Bishop s luitre; the Lamb and Flag. apt*.
bobcat of John the Baptist, the parish saint ; the
Butterfly and the Placenta, symbolical of the Life
and Resurrection. The chapels are paved. in coin-
partments, with Haruhill stone anal iusertions of red
and black tiles from the Poole Pottery Company.
The estimated expenses are about £l,lOO for the
land, and over £3OO for the buildings, which have
beeu executed by Mr. Wellspring, a- Dorchester, in
a most substautial manner. The money has been
borrowed by the Town Council of the %Vest of
Englaaid Company on mortgage of the rates, and the
animal rate of payment for the neat 20 years, we are
told, will be about ,t3lO. .
In the arranged order of proceeding, the clergy
assembled in the 'fownhall, aml there, with the
Mayor and Town Council, awaited the arrival of the
Lord Bishop, who came per train, with his seere-
tary, r. Davies, his niece bearer, ke. His Lord.
slop, habitual in his robes, preceeded to church,
attended by the Rural Dean, the Rev. Prebendary .
Haw trey, and the Vicar, the Rev. W. Thannaa, iii
surplices, and the following clergy in their gaiwrs
Revils. Prebendary Hoskins, F. Ilelyar, Vowles
(Chinnock), Hole, Heidi,, Itimicker, C. Penny, A. a
Ramsay (t'rewkerne), Elliott, C. thgiddee, cox.
well Thompson (Brimpton), Dixon (Chilthorne),
Pole (Yeovilton), Smith (Tintinhull), Valentine
(I )uletouilie), Robinson (Chelsea), Salmon (Martocki,
Smith (Preston), Braund (Asia), Bower (I losiwortli),
Hugh Helyar, J. Langton. ke. The usual arta-main
service, appropriate to the occasion, was read, the
Vicar otiiivaati rig, after w hich the children of St.
John's and Trinity Sunday•sehools, who had been
waiting in Kingston, were marched down to bead
the procession. The latter school were preceded by
a blue banner, anal were [narked out by printed
placards. After them followed the Corporation, of
whom, besides the Mayor and two Aldermen, there
were only five present, viz., Messrs. Hill, Cox,
Bialenharn, Penny, and Neale. The clergy anal the
Bishop took up the rear. At the cemetery hun•
dreds of persons had assembled, and the day being
very tine the towu wore quite a holiday appearance.
On arriving at the ground the prescribed form of
prayer was read by the Bishaip, whilst with the
clergy he perambulated the ground. Having made
the circuit of the Episcopal part the Bishop returned
to the chapel where his secretary read the deed of
conveyance, which recited that the Corporati load
purchased from the Rev. Charles Penny, of West
Coker, for the sum of £1,050, a piece or parcel of I
land numbered 1,466 on the tithe apportionment
map, and in extent San. Ir. 15p. The Bishop having
signed the deed of consecration, then addressed the
assemblage as follows :
" Good People : you are present here to-day to
witness the setting apart of A piece of ground for the
burial of your dead, In all ages and in all countrms
have the 'daces to which the dead are consigned been
reverenced and hallowed coil it is in obedience to that I
law that this vast multitude has followed Ult from yucr
town, to witness the ceremony of setting apart a
jtarticular place to which not only their booties will be
consigned, but the bodies of those whom they have loved I
best upon earth. But it is a reliection fitted for the
day's work, that out of this rust multitude sooner or
later must the body of each 011 e be borne to this resting•
place. 'flue child that is now entering into life--the
With in his vigour of manhood—and those who, tottering
upon the brink of the grave, hare borne the burden
and beat of the day, and are now, AA it were, louvred
down by disease and infirmity—to this re+ting-place,
the lisabes ef all will he consigned. The hotly of the
man who feared God, and of those who feared Him nut
--all. all will la, committed to this plot of ground :
" Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, oust to dust." Does
not this fact give to us a pr ~,,, inent and useful lesson!
If ill are too be consigned here. must we not think how
we are fitting totinielves for that consummation ! Here
we shall lie till the last trumpet shall soma', and the
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
; fur then our mortal booties must put on
I immottalitv, and this corruption must put ton incor•
rm-tson. 'But are we girding ourselves for this change?
that is the question which each should put to hiniself
supposing Gaul calls rue this alas, and 1 should he the
first bully committed to this place, placed under the
suds id this field—mu I prepared suddenly to meet my
Owl? We can only satisfactorily answer this by
preparing to meet Him— by looking up tio him who
giv,th us the victory through faith in Jesus Christ.
%%-e must live to Hill,. and we must live like Mill. In
the worth Of tour Saviour, if we would look forward to a
joyful resurrection, we must he stedfast, alwayaabound.
mg in the work of the Lora, for as Mach as we know
that our labour is not in vine in the Loral. And miy
the Lord bless us and keep us, and lift up the light of
his countenance UpOU US, and give us peace now and
•verinore. Amen.
At the conclusion of this address the procession
returned into the town, arparating at the Townhall.
The Bishop and clergy were afterwards entertained
privately, we believe, by the Vicar and the Mayor.
IittILM:W ATV.It. —COM/W.4 inqUetit.—.l. E. Poole,
Esq., the borough coroner, held an inquest at the
White Ball luau, West atreet, on Tuesday, on the
body if Sarah, wife if Henry Edwards, who died
suddenly the previous Sunday through the bursting
of a blood vessel. The husband of the deceased
deposed that his wife bad been suffering from a haul
leg fair a number of years. Last Sunday she arose as
usual, awl appeared in her ordinary state of health,
until about half-past two in the afternoon, when the
deceased called out to him as he was standing in a
yard near his house, " Henry, my leg is burst."
Witness immediately went to the deceased, and
found her leg bleeding profusely. He at once went
fir a mealaml man, and shortly returned with Mr.
Havilaud, who told him it was nearly all over with
his wife. She said nothing more than to respitat
that her heal be lifted.—The coroner said that there
was no doubt that the deceased haul long been suf.
faring from a varicose vein in the leg, anal the burst•
ing of the vein was the cause of her death. The
jury returned a verdict accordingly.