The Graveyard & Church Monuments Of Epsom

St Martin of Tours Churchyard
Image courtesy of Bourne Hall Museum

The information in the following document was compiled by the Epsom & Ewell History & Archaeology Society (EEHAS) (formerly Nonsuch Antiquarian Society) under the direction of Martin Nail in 1963 and transcribed in 2011. It covers three places of worship viz. St. Martin Of Tours, the Congregational Church and Bugby Strict Baptist Chapel supplemented by other sources, for ease of use we have split the document into 9 separate sections:

• St Martin’s stones and monuments inscriptions in graveyard (Please note a Graveyard Index is now available to this section).
• St Martin’s Inscriptions on the floor and walls
• St Martin’s WWI and WWII Memorial inscriptions Clicking on any of the names listed on the PDF at this link will take you to a biography of the individual – as will clicking on the names in the photographs of these memorials on our page about St Martin’s war memorials.
• Extracts from Vol II, 1809 Manning & Bray’s History of Surrey
• Inscriptions from a manuscript copy made by Mr A R Bax c.1880 housed in the Surrey Archaeological Society
• St Martin’s graves, gravestones and tombs disturbed in the building operation 1907-1908
• Congregational Church (URC) inscriptions on stones This notes that headstone C1 was “Behind Pier and completely obscured”. This was the Weston headstone which, in early 2024, was found to have been released from its prison, presumably as part of preparations for redeveloping the now-closed United Reformed Church.
• Bugby Strict Baptist Chapel inscriptions
• Index of occupations for St Martin’s and Bugby Chapel

The monument inscription for William Snelling, shown below, from St. Martin of Tours graveyard, was transcribed in 1891. As it was on a wooden rail it had rotted away by the time EEHAS transcribed the inscriptions on monuments in 2011, hence it appears here as an addition. The Snellings lived on Grylls Lane in the cottage at Crockingham Corner and William was servant to Miss Pate and then Baron de Rolle. An index to wills, including Williams can be found here.

Sourced from ‘FAITHFUL SERVANTS: BEING Epitaphs and Obituaries RECORDING THEIR NAMES AND SERVICES.
Edited and in part collected by Arthur J. Munby, 1891.

A plan for St Martin’s graveyard has been drawn up and is reproduced here in four overlapping sections. Some of the grave numbers are not very clear but in most cases it is possible to work out exactly where the grave is.

Overlapping sections of St Martin’s Graveyard – click on an image to enlarge.
Images courtesy of St Martin’s Church Epsom © 2011