Re-building was carried out between 1660 and 1667 including the addition of the south aisle, and a west end gallery for soldiers from the Garrison.

Over the centuries countless members of the old Scilly families have been buried here, as have been the crews of numerous ships lost near the Isles.

She died when her ship sank off the Western Rocks and was first buried on Rosevear, before eventually being interred at Old Town Church.

This part of the cemetery features a monument to Augustus Smith (1804–1872) as well as mass graves of passengers drowned in the sinking of SS Schiller (1875).

The grave of Lieutenant Roy Graham (1924–2007), who led the 1967 naval diving expedition that discovered the wreck of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell's flagship HMS Association, can be found in one of the newer sections of the cemetery.