St James Churchyard
Welcome to the Churchyard of St James Church in Bushey Parish Hertfordshire, part of the Diocese of St Albans.
Churchyard Regulations
As part of the Diocese of St Albans, everything connected with the Churchyard at St James is covered by regulations published in 2025. For example, installing new memorials, burial of ashes, placing flowers, shrubs and trees etc. have certain legal requirements that must be followed. Please follow the link to access these regulations. read more
BURIALS IN THE CHURCHYARD
If you have any enquiries about burials in St James's Churchyard, you can email churchyard@busheyparish.org and our Churchyard Manager will do his best to help.
Greg Batts
Churchyard Maintenance
Saturday 26th September 2026. 10am to 12 noon.
St James Churchyard Tour
f you are interested in taking a tour of the Churchyard and finding out more about some of the graves and memorials, you can download a guide here to help you walk around.
Huge thanks to everyone who came to help with Churchyard Maintenance.
Greg
The Lucy Kemp Welch Grave has been restored. Thanks to Friends of Bushey Museum.
The working party.
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Thank you to all our volunteer helpers.
Information for Families Please use this link.
THE LYTCH GATE
The original Lytch Gate was destroyed by a bomb in 1940.
The bomb destroyed some of the windows in the Church and damaged some of the nearby monuments.
Below are the names and Commonwealth War Graves of Sidney Holliday and Frederick Harris who both lost their lives in Bushey when the bomb exploded.
From The Watford Observer
Ann White Churchyard Warden
For more information on the churchyard please email churchyard@busheyparish.org