st marys, west kensington

[nataliew]

... on the Hammersmith Road, I think!
I don't know this church but everything I've read says it was bombed in WW2 and then re-built. I've found a burial record for 4 x great-grandpa being buried there but does anyone know if it would be possible to find the gravestone?
Thanks

[Mutley]

Have you read the information on Genuki.
Doubt if it answers your question but may give you an idea where to look.

St Mary Abbotts, (but it says Kensington High Street not Hammersmith Road)?
http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/M...n/churches.htm

So perhaps this one is a better choice.
The church of Saint Mary, West Kensington, is situated on corner of Hammersmith Road and Edith Road, W14. It was established as a chapel of ease in 1813 and became a separate parish church in 1835. The church suffered bomb damage during the Second World War but was rebuilt.
http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/...v1=search&nv2=

[Peter Goodey]

From the Society of Genealogists Library catalogue...

• KENSINGTON (St. Mary Abbots) : MIs from tombstones & monuments removed & placed round the walls of the disused burial ground under a faculty dated 1921: London & Middlesex tracts, vol. 3 [Typescript.]
• KENSINGTON (St. Mary Abbots) : MIs: Middlesex monumental inscriptions, vol. 6 [Typescript.]

The wording of the first item may suggest that documented MIs are the best you're going to get. I'll leave you to work out where else they might be available.

Otherwise, it may be worth your while popping in to the Society of Genealogists next time you're in London.

[nataliew]

it's the 2nd church that Mutley mentions - Saint Mary, West Kensington.
It's the WW2 bombing that worries me...

[Coromandel]

It seems that the churchyard of St Mary, West Kensington, is now a garden. 'When the churchyard became a public garden the graves were cleared, with headstones set along the walls', according to London Gardens Online:

http://www.
londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=HAF052

[olliecat]

It seems that the churchyard of St Mary, West Kensington, is now a garden.

The location of St Mary's Church, 2 Edith Road/Hammersmith Road (now a garden) can be viewed on Google Maps, street view. See here.

Mind you, can't see any walls where headstones could have been set