God's Acre

Smaller God's Acres may combine the infant and children sections.

God's Acre is not literally one acre in size; many are larger or smaller.

The burial ground or God's Acre stands at the eastern end of the terrace.

'God's acre has to be protected from unscrupulous and thoughtless men.

The ornamented stone lectern from this time is still existing in the middle of the God's acre.

The parish church is thus the one building in any neighbourhood that is worth saving, together with God's acre, the churchyard.

God's Acre - a synonym for a churchyard.

The worshipers then process in silent prayer to the historic graveyard, or "God's Acre".

God's Acre also refers to a small patch of land whose legal owner is "God Almighty".

Athelstan held up his torch and Cranston looked around this most benighted of God's acres.

Immediately to the north of the house, there is a cemetery which the Moravians operated as a God's Acre.

He is buried in "God's Acre" cemetery in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Greenoak, Francesca (1985) God's Acre: the flowers and animals of the parish churchyard.

The township contains these three cemeteries: Brainard, Elgin and God's Acres.

God's Acre, a hill in New Canaan that is host to several churches, appears often and in different scenes and times of day.

So it came as a jolt to discover that God's Acre (actually a half-acre) was thus designated because it began as a cemetery.

Moravian Close nearby is still the London God's Acre, where many famous Moravians are buried.

He was returned to Lititz and is buried in God's Acre, the Moravian Graveyard.

It stands on one of the oldest parcels of consecrated land on the island, often known in Barbados as "God's acre".

He is buried with his wife in God's Acre Cemetery in Clermont, Iowa.

Next door the burial ground is called God's Acre; it is the resting-place of early Harvard presidents and Revolutionary soldiers.

The Brothers and Sisters Walks, on either side of the Church, meet at the burial ground or "God's Acre", which remains in use.

Yet, because God's Acre was one of the first sights greeting visitors to town, cleanups and new plantings starting in 1877 gradually gave it a face lift.

Everyone hopes it will have snowed before Christmas Eve, when a crowd turns out on God's Acre, carrying candles, to sing carols.

God's Acre (German Gottesacker, lit.