Today we visited the Crypt underneath St Leonards Church in Hythe where the bones from around 4,000 bodies are stacked and displayed on shelves. Possibly one of the strangest things I’ve seen in a church but definitely one of the coolest

skulls, lots of skulls

skulls, lots of skulls

even more skulls

even more skulls

 body parts from around 4000 individual corpses

just some examples of body parts from around 4000 individual corpses

A scull embedded in femurs

A skull embedded in femurs

As well as the skulls there were thousands of thigh bones and piles of jaw bones as well.