Its very subtle but I think its Blakeney not Viney Hill !
Both are "All Saints"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/churchcrawler/4362625454/

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engcots/BlakeneyPhotos.html

The Church of England church at Blakeney was built in the 1800's. Before this time, the parish was combined with the village of Awre, a little further to the east and closer to the River Severn.

The font is what appears to be a 15th century stoup for holy water, believed to have been removed from Awre church during the Reformation and buried for safety. It was found near Gatcombe when the railway was built, and used locally as a flower pot for many years before being brought to the church at Blakeney

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/164443

STOUP / STOOP
1.Ecclesiastical. A basin or font for holy water at the entrance of a church.

"Blakeney church is modern and its oldest possession is what appears to be a mediaeval stoup for holy water, now doing service as a font. It has a queer story. It is believed to have been taken from Awre church and buried for safety during the Reformation. They found it near Gatcombe in making the railway, and after a little experience as a flowerpot it was brought to a place of honour in Blakeney church."

Author Name: Arthur Mee. Ed
Title: The Kings England. Gloucestershire.
Binding: Hardcover
Size: 440 Pages
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton; 1st Reprint edition (1940)
ASIN: B004AQ2LX4

I'm sure it was never in doubt, only a matter of time before some evidence to support the memory or prove that it was perhaps mixed with other memories came to light !!

I never would have recognized the name, or managed to find it the way it is entered, but the information matches both her death certificate and her funeral card, so I guess that's another mystery solved. Another confirmation that it's Sarah Ann Clarke is the grave number, which corresponds to my great-grandmother's, with whom she is buried.

And I never would have found Sarah with those spellings. The records must have been paticularly difficult to decipher.

and then :-
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=28333

Name: Ernest W Cadogan
Death Registration Month/Year: 1918
Age at death (estimated): 0
Registration district: Pontypridd
Inferred County: Glamorganshire
Volume: 11a
Page: 1131

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Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
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Marriages Sep 1904 (>99%)
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Cadogan Alexander Cardiff 11a 689
Lewis Elizabeth Ann Cardiff 11a 689

There is nothing close to CROOKER in the BMD index for 1913

Name: Sarah A Clarke
Estimated birth year: abt 1833
Year of Registration: 1913
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Age at Death: 80
District: Westbury On Severn
County: Gloucestershire
Volume: 6a
Page: 368

A transcription cross check required :-)

In Affectionate Remembrance of Sarah Ann Clarke,
The beloved Wife of Richard Clarke, of Blakeney,
Who departed this life January 6th, 1913
Aged 80 years,
And was interred at Viney Hill Church,
Forest of Dean,
January 11th.

New Road, Blakeney, Glos.
With the family's kind regards.

John James' card is missing from the scrapbook, but I thought he was buried with his wife, Mary Ann James, who died in 1918 and is buried with her parents, Richard Clarke (d. 1882, recorded as buried at Viney Hill)and the aforementioned Sarah Ann.

I have a photograph of the gravestone somewhere. John died in Cardiff, so there's a possibility that it was just that it said Mary Ann JAMES on the stone along with her parents that made me think he was also there.

There are also two baptisms I would have expected to see, as both boys were born at Box Tree Cottage, both within the same time period where there were burials from the house at Viney Hill. The first is my grandfather, Charles George Lewis, born at Blakeney April 27, 1881, and later his nephew, Wilfred Ernest Cadogan, who was born, I believe, in 1917 (I'd have to find the date) also at Box Tree Cottage. Richard Clarke was buried at Viney Hill in 1882, and Mary Ann James was buried there in 1918, so the family were still affiliated with the church during those times.

I know I was told my Grandfather was baptised at Viney Hill, I am just making that assumption with Wilf.

Returning to the Porch we enter the Church and immediately on our left we see the plain stone Font with its heavy oak cover. The copper Ewer at the Font was given by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Johnson.

The church of ALL SAINTS, Viney Hill, begun in 1865 and consecrated in 1867, was built as a memorial to Charles Bathurst (d. 1863) of Lydney Park by his wife Mary and his brother and heir, the Revd. W. H. Bathurst. (fn. 25) In the mid 1830s the Viney Hill area was visited by the curate of Blakeney and the vicar of Awre. (fn. 26) Later Henry Poole organized missions from St. Paul's church, Parkend, and in the early 1850s he built school-chapels between Viney Hill and Oldcroft and at Blakeney Woodside with the help of Charles Bathurst and Edward Machen, deputy surveyor of the Forest. (fn. 27) That between Viney Hill and Oldcroft, which became known as St. Swithin, (fn. 28) was replaced for services by All Saints' church, further east. All Saints was in 1866 assigned a parish taken from that of St. Paul's church and including Blakeney Hill and Yorkley Slade. (fn. 29) The benefice, described as a perpetual curacy (later a vicarage), was given a stipend of £150, of which £100 was secured by an endowment from Mary and W. H. Bathurst, (fn. 30) and a new house north of the church. (fn. 31) The patronage was vested in W. H. Bathurst (fn. 32) and descended with the Lydney Park estate (fn. 33) until 1936 when Viscount Bledisloe gave it to University College, Oxford. (fn. 34)

All Saints' church, built of local red sandstone with grey sandstone dressings, was designed by Ewan Christian (fn. 35) in a late 13th-century style with an apsidal chancel flanked by quadrant chapels and a nave with north transept and south aisle and porch. The north chapel was used as a vestry and the south chapel was converted in the early 20th century as a choir vestry. Of the fittings the organ, in the transept, was bought between 1900 and 1904 to replace another instrument. (fn. 36) The two bells hanging in a bellcot over the chancel were cast in 1867 by Mears & Stainbank. (fn. 37) The plate includes an almsdish donated in 1901 by Charles Bathurst (later Viscount Bledisloe) (fn. 38) and a chalice and paten given in memory of C. R. Williams, vicar 1922-50. (fn. 39) The mission to Blakeney Woodside continued under All Saints' church until its abandonment before 1950. (fn. 40) In 1875 A. D. Pringle, vicar of Blakeney, began holding Sunday services in a former Baptist meeting house at Blakeney Hill. (fn. 41) The building was presumably that used as a mission hall until at least 1901. (fn. 42)

From: 'Forest of Dean: Churches', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 389-396. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23271 Date accessed: 19 November 2010.

I know some of my family is definitely buried in the churchyard (I have the memorial cards), but they aren't listed in the FOD parish records.

We have the transcribed burial records on the Web site for Viney Hill covering the period 1867-1969.

Are the burials records you are seeking after 1969?

If the burials are prior to 1969 then please tell us the names and dates of the burials and we will check it out.

-> List of transcribed parish records

In an aside, I know some of my family is definitely buried in the churchyard (I have the memorial cards), but they aren't listed in the FOD parish records.