St. Mary the Virgin Churchyard in Torquay, Devon

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Torquay, Torbay Unitary Authority, Devon TQ1 4QY England

Coordinates: 50.48375, -3.52495
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About these numbers These percentages indicate the number of Find a Grave memorials that have a grave photo or GPS coordinates. We don't know the total number of burials in a cemetery, so we cannot calculate a percentage of those with memorials, photos or GPS coordinates.

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For Find a Grave purposes it is useful to know that the church was bombed 30th May 1943, this resulted in the death of 26 children attending Sunday School.
The Church itself was seriously damaged, the central nave and aisles were completely demolished. At the east end by the alter the roof was brought down and the west tower survived. Post war restoration now means there are no graves, markers or memorial plaques visible inside the church. They may have been destroyed, removed or covered over. There may be cenotaphs inside EG. Lists of dead from WWII.

Churchyard.
Grave markers exist in their original locations to the west and south of the church. The areas to the east and south-east have very few markers. Photographs from 1978 show this area to be heavily populated with markers which are now absent.

Numerous grave markers are now propped up around the eastern end of the church building and against the wall on the north side. These however can only form a small percentage of those seen in the 1978 images. In other words, many grave markers were removed and are now presumably lost forever.