Adjacent to the church is the graveyard which was in use from March 1839 till April 1896. Bishop Broughton consecrated the graveyard on December 26th, 1840. There are 2,515 people listed in the burial register. Two thirds of these burials are of children under the age ten. Of the two thirds, more than half are under three years. There are many memorials to the pioneers of the district and beyond. Symbols of a past era - draped urns, hourglasses and broken branches are carved on the headstones. The graveyard is not only a place of burial, but a great source of social history.

Notable local families buried there are:

• Way
• Unwin
• Breillat
• Duguid
• Josephson
• Chalder
• Metcalfe
• Reilly
• Knight
• Barden and
• Gannon

Others from further afield are:

• Susannah Hensley of Susannah Place
• William Beaumont of the Joseph Banks Hotel
• John Bibb, architect
• Thomas Icely, pioneer pastoralist;
• James Raymond, first Post-Master General of NSW and his daughter Aphrasia Maughan, first mistress of Dundullimal at Dubbo and
• Cornelius Prout, owner of Belle Ombre at Canterbury.

Find out more about our Victorian Graveyard in our publication Grave Reflections written by Laurel Horton.