Experts uncover secret vault
Tuesday 9th March 2010, 10:09AM GMT.
The coffins beneath St John's Church in Bishop's Castle have lain undisturbed for 150 years
These are the first amazing images of a hidden burial vault that lay undiscovered underneath a south Shropshire church for 150 years.
The chamber at St John’s Church in Bishop’s Castle contains 16 coffins.
An inscription on one bears the name Byne Oakeley, with the date 1825. It is believed the bodies in the coffins are all members of the Oakeley family, an important and well-thought of family in the area at the time.
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FINALLY !!
A place to put most of the Shropshire County Councillors!!
Especially, the idiots who proposed the ‘switching off’ engines and the raising of the ‘car parking’ charges……
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