Today, all that remains of St Mary’s Church is its bell tower, standing in the former churchyard, a little back from Hornsey High Street. St Mary’s Tower is a focal …
The HHS features in this week’s Ham and High in an article about the tombstone of Harriet Long and Jacob Walker in the St Mary’s Churchyard in Hornsey. Using HHS …
The author sets out short biographies of ten notable Victorians and their families and gives the location of their graves in the churchyard.
This illustrated booklet gives a brief history of St. Mary’s Church and a conducted tour around the churchyard describing the tombs, gravestones and memorials of some of Hornsey’s famous former residents.
The tower was built as part of the medieval church of St Mary when Hornsey was a small rural village in Middlesex. The lower part of the tower is medieval, …
Unfortunately the Friends of Hornsey Church Tower trip that was scheduled for Saturday April 25th, the Towers and Turrets Tour, has been postponed because of the Coronavirus. This is a precautionary …
This illustrated booklet, written by an eminent local geologist, provides an informative account of the materials, design and features of St. Mary’s churchyard and its 18th and 19th century gravestones and tombs.
This booklet is a self guided walk around the church tower, the bell tower for the three successive parish churches and the only remaining building which has been conserved and watched over by the Friends of Hornsey Church Tower for the past 28 years.
How well do you know the history of Hornsey and its Churchyard? Test yourself in this short quiz.
Below is the full list of names which appear on the 1914-18 Memorial Board at St Mary’s Church Tower, Hornsey.