Cemeteries · South East England
Bath Abbey Cemetery
Bath Abbey Cemetery is a cemetery in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 30 min–1 h
- Nearest railway station
- Bath Spa · 0.9 km
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
Bath Abbey Cemetery is a named cemetery in the United Kingdom. Coordinates: 51.3713°, -2.3480°. This entry is part of The Great Britain Guide, a free, ad-free, open-data tourist directory.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines SSSI
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Cotswolds
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
The Anglican Bath Abbey Cemetery, officially dedicated as the Cemetery of St Peter and St Paul (the patron saints that Bath Abbey is dedicated to), was laid out by noted cemetery designer and landscape architect John Claudius Loudon (1783–1843) between 1843 and 1844 on a picturesque hillside site overlooking Bath, Somerset, England. The cemetery was consecrated on 30 January 1844. It was a private Anglican cemetery financed by W. J. Broderick, Rector of Bath Abbey. The layout is a mixture of formal and informal arranged along a central avenue. It features a mortuary chapel, designed by Bath City Architect G. P. Manners in the then fashionable Norman Revival architectural style.
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Background
History
The cemetery is on a site that was used for Roman burials, three stone coffins and Roman coins dating to Constantine the Great and Carausius having been found when the roadway to the chapel was constructed. In 1952 a further Roman coffin was discovered during the removal of a tree root from a footpath. The eccentric William Thomas Beckford was originally buried here, but moved when his former retreat of Lansdown Tower came under threat of becoming a pleasure garden and was transformed into Lansdown Cemetery in the parish of Walcot. "The best monuments are slightly neo-Grecian with canopied tops, dating from the 1840s. Note that to S. M. Hinds d.1847 signed Reeves, the Bath firm of…
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- Coordinates
- 51.3713, -2.3480
- District
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Parish
- Bath and North East Somerset, unparished area
- Postcode
- BA2 5BB
- Parliamentary constituency
- Bath
- Nearest railway station
- Bath Spa — 0.9 km
- Official site
- www.batharchives.co.uk
Sources
- osm: w4281624 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Bath Abbey Cemetery (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: View up the path to the Mortuary Chapel (geograph 2902833).jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Bath Abbey Cemetery?
- Bath Abbey Cemetery is in South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode BA2 5BB), in the parish of Bath and North East Somerset, unparished area.
- Is Bath Abbey Cemetery a protected site?
- Yes — Bath Abbey Cemetery is part of the Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the Cotswolds National Landscape (AONB).
- How do I get to Bath Abbey Cemetery?
- The nearest railway station is Bath Spa, about 0.9 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode BA2 5BB.