I can confirm that the houses on the estate are definitely not built on any graves - they are built on the grounds of where Christ Church School was and the boundary fence is in practically the same place as the school fence was.
However, the entire Grave Plot section A and most of section B have been removed and a handful of the gravestones were relocated into what was once the body of Christ Church - one of those gravestones being the lid of the tomb that belonged to Charles Jeafferson, the longest serving clergyman of Christ Church in the 1800s. As for discovering what's happened to the bodies - I've not been able to discover that but that's something that our Facebook Christ Church group will try and discover one day once we've finished campaigning for the memorial plaque for the 5 WW1 soldiers who still lie in that graveyard (a plaque we've paid for out of our own pockets).
As for the church's closure, that was simply down to spiralling repair costs that the Diocese couldn't afford as it was in a really poor state of repair towards the end of its days as an active church and then a couple of years later, thieves were in the roof cavity trying to steal lead and accidentally set fire to the roof which spread due to the fact that it was mostly timber but also not helped that it happened during the firefighter's strike and the Green Goddesses really didn't have the capacity to cope despite their efforts.
Seeing as the church was redundant and had been so badly damaged at the rear, it was deemed more cost effective to demolish it but they retained the spire because it's Grade II listed.
The churchyard itself was left open to the public for some years but is now permanently locked (the front gates are actually welded shut!) as people living nearby were concerned over vandalism.
