The Anglican Bath Abbey Cemetery, officially dedicated as the Cemetery of St Peter and St Paul (the patron saints that Bath Abbey

Bath Abbey

The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Bath, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is an Anglican parish church and a former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England...

 is dedicated to), was laid out by noted cemetery designer and landscape architect John Claudius Loudon

John Claudius Loudon

John Claudius Loudon was a Scottish botanist, garden and cemetery designer, author and garden magazine editor.-Background:...

 (1783–1843) in 1843 on a picturesque hillside site overlooking Bath, Somerset

Somerset

The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

, England

England

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. The cemetery was laid out between 1843 and 1844.

The cemetery was consecrated on 30th 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

Bath City Architect

The prominent post of Bath City Architect was bestowed by the Corporation of Bath, England, on an architect who would be repeatedly chosen for civic projects.* Thomas Warr Attwood  –1775* Thomas Baldwin 1780–1792* John Palmer 1792–1817...

 G. P. Manners in the then fashionable Norman Revival architectural style.

History

The eccentric William Thomas Beckford

William Thomas Beckford

William Thomas Beckford , usually known as William Beckford, was an English novelist, a profligate and consummately knowledgeable art collector and patron of works of decorative art, a critic, travel writer and sometime politician, reputed to be the richest commoner in England...

 was originally buried here, but moved once its former retreat of Lansdown Tower

Beckford's Tower

Beckford's Tower, originally known as Lansdown Tower, is an architectural folly built in neo-classical style on Lansdown Hill, just outside Bath, Somerset, England....

 was converted into Lansdown Cemetery (which was sold after his death and when it appeared that the buyer wanted to turn it into a pub and pleasure garden, Beckford’s daughter bought it back and presented it to the Rector of Walcot

Walcot, Bath

Walcot is a suburb of the city of Bath, England. It lies to the north-north-east of the city centre, and is an electoral ward of the city.The parish church, on The Paragon is dedicated to St Swithin and was built in 1779-90 by John Palmer....

 as a cemetery.) “The best monuments are slightly neo-Grecian with canopied tops, dating from the 1840s. Note that to S. M. Hinds d.1847 signed Reeves

Reeves of Bath

Reeves was the most prominent firm of monumental masons in Bath, Somerset. They flourished from c. 1778 to the 1860s. They often signed their work with "Reeves," or occasionally "Reeves & Son of Bath" when commissioned outside of Bath. One memorial is in the Grade I-listed City of London church St...

, the Bath firm of Monumental masons, that flourished from c.1778 to 1860….”

The mortuary chapel, along with 37 monuments in the cemetery are Grade II listed, and one monument surpasses the chapel in importance to be listed as Grade II*.
A general trend is that the most elaborate monuments belong to individuals formerly residing at the most exclusive addresses. An interesting trend seems that clerics get Gothic Revival style

Gothic Revival architecture

The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...

 style and military men typically get Greek Revival style

Greek Revival architecture

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 monuments.

Mortuary Chapel

The three-bay double-height chapel was built in 1844 to designs by George Phillips Manners

George Phillips Manners

George Phillips Manners was an English architect, City Architect and →to the city of Bath from 1823 to 1862.In his early career he worked with Charles Harcourt Masters and after about 1845 was in partnership with C.E. Gill...

 in the Norman Revival architectural style by with a prominent west tower over a three-sided open porch / porte cochere. The chapel is built above a crypt and was planned to be flanked by open cloister wings containing a columbarium and loculi. Ever since the cemetery’s closure, the chapel has also been closed and in a deteriorating condition. It was listed Grade II historic building on 5 August 1975. The memorials in the cemetery were also proposed for listing but this has not happened yet. It remains owned by Bath Abbey

Bath Abbey

The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Bath, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is an Anglican parish church and a former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England...

, although a lease or sale was considered to Bath’s Orthodox church, which never materialized.

List of prominent memorials

• Crimean War Memorial, c. 1855, an obelisk memorial of poished stone designed in the Greek Revival style
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• Robert Scott of 3 Duke Street, St James, c. 1861, a white marble memorial designed in the Gothic Revival style
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• Elizabeth Hunt of 72 Pulteney Street, c. 1846, a polished stone obelisk designed in the Gothic Revival style
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• Robert Harvey Forsmann of St Petersburg (records infant death), of 15 Bennet Street, Walcot, a white marble memorial designed in the Greek Revival style
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• Doverton Chalmers Greetree Swan of Island of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) (records infant death) of 36 Pulteney, a white marble memorial designed in the Greek Revival style
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• John Gill (also Louise Gicnac) of 14 Bathwick Street, c. 1851, a white marble memorial designed in the Greek Revival style
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• Francis Hunt of 65 Pulteney, c. 1851, a memorial designed in the Greek Revival style
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• Gen. Paul Anderson of 10 Paragon Buildings, a polished stone memorial designed in the Greek Revival style
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• Joseph Chaning Pearce of Montague House. Lambridge, c. 1847 (House became a museum to his 200 fossil collection), a polished pink granite, and polished stone plinth, designed in the Greek Revival style
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   (Signed Rogers of Bath)

• Sidney P. Macgreggor of Widcombe House, Widcombe, c. 1855, a marble memorial designed in the Gothic Revival style
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    (signed by Tucker, mason)

• Ellen Maria Lamb of New Bond Street, St Michael’s, c. 1856, a polished stone memorial, designed in the Greek Revival style
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• John Pavin of 5 Cavendish Crescent
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  , Walcot, c. 1848, a white marble memorial designed in the Greek Revival style
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• Julius Hall of 45 Pulteney Street, c. 1869, a white marble memorial obelisk designed in the Gothic Revival style
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• Charles Pratt of Combe Grove Manor, c. 1844, a white marble mini temple memorial designed in the Greek Revival style
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• Henry John Sharpe, Merchant of New York, of Royal Hotel, St James, Doric Column on Pediment WM- designed in the Greek Revival style
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    (Signed by Treasure Mason)

• John Collingridge of 57 Pulteney Street, c. 1855, a memorial designed in the Greek Revival style
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• James Weeks Williams of 6 Claremont Place, Walcot, c.1848, a marble classical revival mini temple (signed White) “The Williams Memorial is a white marble miniature open Greek temple raised up on a penant stone pedestal. Four pained sets of fluted columns with lotus and acanthus leaf capitals support a canopy over a draped urn flashed by an angel and a female mowner. The equally elaborate inscription is to Jane Wiliams who died at her residence, 17 Kensington Place, Bath, in 1848 aged 88. One side of the base commemorates 17-year-old Henry Williams, ‘who by accidentally falling off the West India docks in a dense London fog was unfortunately drowned’ in 1853.”

• Stothert (Family) of Hay Hill, c. 1855, a polished stone memorial designed in the Greek Revival style
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• ??daria Lady Hargood of Royal Crescent, c. 1849, a memorial designed in the Gothic Revival style
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• Elizabeth Ingram of 11 South Parade, c. 1845, a memorial designed in the Norman Revival architectural style

• Samuel Maxwell Hinds of 7 Raby Place, a white marble memorial designed in the Greek Revival style
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   (signed Reeves
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• Mary Ann Hunter of 7 Edward Street, c. 1869, a white marble cross memorial designed in the Gothic Revival style
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• Robert Neale of Butt Ash Cottage, Widcombe, c. 1873, a white marble obelisk designed in the Gothic Revival style
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• Ann Partis of 58 Pulteney, c. 1846 (Listed II*), a white marble memorial designed in the Greek Revival style
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• Lt. Col. Richard Tatton of Blyth, Northumberland, c. 1867, a white marble obelisk designed in the Greek Revival style
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• Eleanor Moody of Pulteney Street, c. 1844

• Edwin Augustus Lawton of St Mary’s Buildings, Lyncombe, c.1863, a white marble headstone designed in the Gothic Revival style
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• Capt. Peter Gapper of Easton Home, Beechen Cliff, c. 1866, a white marble obelisk designed in the Greek Revival style
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• Charles Hamper of the Grove, Bathampton, c.1866, a polished stone memorial designed in the Gothic Revival style
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• Rose Caroline Browne of Bathampton, c. 1858, a Lithodipyra (Coade stone
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  ) memorial designed in the Gothic Revival style
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• John Hay Clive of Hastings (late of Bathwick Hill), c. 1853, a memorial designed in the Greek Revival style
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• Charles Rainsford Hall of Bathampton, c. 1848, a memorial designed in the Greek Revival style
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• Benjamin Plim Bellamy of Beacon Hill, Walcot, c.1847, a polished stone monument designed in the Greek Revival style
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    (Signed Reeves
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• Charles Richardson (briefly) of New Bond Street, c. 1890 (drowned in River Avon), a polished stone memorial designed in the Greek Revival style
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• William Westall of 1 George’s Place, Bathwick Hill, c. 1853, a polished stone obelisk memorial, designed in the Greek Revival style
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• Rev. Edward Tottenham of Marlborough Buildings, Walcot, c. 1853, a polished stone memorial designed in the Gothic Revival style
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• Rev. Nathan Ashby of Combe Down, Monkton Combe, (same as Tottenham), a polished stone memorial designed in the Gothic Revival style
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• John Monk Lambe of 3 Sydney Buildings, c. 1865, a memorial designed in the Greek Revival style
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