The Country Graveyard 
SOUTHERN CHURCH GRAVEYARD 
Surrounding the Bruton Episcopal Church , Williamsburg , Va. 
fences the white of marble will be less glar¬ 
ing and conspicuous, as it will he, too, when 
snow is on the ground. For the object in 
using country rock is to secure color agree¬ 
ment with the landscape. White stones in a 
red or gray setting project themselves upon 
the vision with almost painful distinctness, 
and are out of harmony with the ledges, hills, 
boulders, roads and other exposures of rock 
and earth. Then, there is the objection that 
the extraneous obelisk or tablet is so obvi- 
ously commercial. There enters into it no 
native quaintness, and none of the esteem 
that the local cutter engraved on the slab 
when he made it to the memory of a friend 
or neighbor. 
It is a cause tor regret that the cemetery 
is so often separated now-a-days from its 
ancient and dignified adjunct, the church. 
Considerations of public health possible jus¬ 
tified the removal, in some cases, as they 
ordered the discontinuance of burial in the 
cathedrals, but in the country there is room, 
and the church’s isolation permits the gath¬ 
ering of those who were members of the 
fold. The symbolism is happy and comfort¬ 
ing, and the presence of the graves is an in¬ 
surance against unseemly crowding by resi¬ 
dences or shops. Who does not remember 
the charming country churches of England, 
and turn to them in memory as a type of 
what is national in sentiment and tradition, 
and beautiful in form. We are putting up 
structures like them. They are suggested 
by the chapel in Mount Auburn. The First 
Baptist Church at Watertown, Mass., is one 
of many in the old commonwealth that re¬ 
calls them, too—a building of yellow-gray 
stone, with a square, staunch tower, windows 
in perpendicular Gothic, and shade trees 
roundabout. The matter-of-fact cemetery 
beside it might be improved by a landscape 
architect, but it forms an excellent fore¬ 
ground, the church gaining serenity and 
gravity, even as it lends them. 
An English landscape is incomplete unless, 
somewhere in the middle distance, there is a 
church, grav with age and green with ivy, 
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