Bishop of Shrewsbury visits North Shropshire town to make cemetery land suitable for Christian burials

Shropshire Star

The final piece of land at Market Drayton Cemetery has been made holy and suitable for Christian burials.  The Bishop of Shrewsbury, Rev. Sarah Bullock consecrated the ground at the cemetery on Tuesday morning (June 17).

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00:00So we're here at Market Drayton Cemetery and we're with Councillor Tim Manton. Hello sir. Hello.

00:04So Tim, what's been happening today? Rather a special occasion, six years in the making I understand.

00:09Six years in the making. We've had the consecration by the Bishop today up at the Town Council's

00:15cemetery. There are some things in life which only happen once in a lifetime and I'm pretty

00:21sure this is probably only going to happen once in my lifetime. It's been absolutely fascinating

00:25but the cemetery is a special place in Market Drayton for obvious reasons and to get the

00:30Bishop here to consecrate the Town Council cemeteries are absolutely fantastic and we're very, very

00:36pleased. It's thanks to the hard work by the Town Council staff and obviously the St. Mayor's

00:43and unfortunately Catherine can't be here today. But no, it's been a wonderful day. The weather

00:48has come out for us and it's been absolutely fantastic.

00:52And there was, I was kind of unexpectedly, you have to process to the four corners of the

00:57land that's to be consecrated, don't you?

00:59That's correct. So it was a little bit of a hike for us. We have to do the blessing in

01:05each four corners of the land which was quite interesting and the Bishop obviously had to

01:13strike the cross into the ground at each of the four corners and then bless each of the

01:18four corners as well. So yeah absolutely fascinating. Well, well done Tim. It's six years in the

01:23making and today it's happened. Well done sir. Thank you very much indeed.

01:27The blessing of the eternal God be upon this place to sanctify it, to keep it holy and to

01:34make it a place of lost and hope. Through Jesus Christ our work. Amen.

01:40Amen.

01:42Amen.

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