Monumental Inscription Information in the Bath Record Office

Bath Record Office holds transcriptions of memorial inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in some of Bath’s churches and churchyards.

Bath Abbey parish Abbey Inscriptions on the Flat Grave Stones in the Bath Abbey Church copied by Charles P Russell (Parish Clerk) at the time of the Restoration of the Church in 1872. Map with handwritten transcripts with some hand-drawn coats of arms.

Memorial Inscriptions of Bath Abbey, Transcribed by J Dunn 1912-1914. Typed volume. Arranged in 27 sections according to location with a surname index.

Bath Abbey – Burial Register Name & Memorial Indexes. Widcombe Association 2013. Contains name, floor memorial and wall memorial indexes, the memorial indexes based on the preceding documentation of floor and wall memorials.

Abbey Cemetery Bath Abbey Cemetery – Memorial Inscriptions, Widcombe Association, 2009. A comprehensive documentation of the memorials with images, maps and inscriptions and name and location indexes for those buried in the cemetery. (CD)

Abbey & St James’ Poor Cemetery No MIs exists, the site on Lyncombe Hill having been built on.

Bathwick Old St Mary’s & St John’s Bathwick Memorial Inscriptions - St Mary’s and St John’s Churches and (Old) Churchyards, The Bathwick Local History Society (2011) (bound volume). Typewritten transcription of inscriptions and maps but no images.

St Mary’s Churchyard St Mary’s Churchyard, Bathwick – Memorial Inscriptions, Bathwick Local History Society, 2011. A comprehensive documentation of the memorials with images, inscriptions and name and location indexes for those buried in the cemetery. (Bound volumes.)

Smallcombe Vale Cemetery Smallcombe Vale Cemetery – Memorial Inscriptions, Bathwick Local History Society, 2011. A comprehensive documentation of the memorials with images, maps and inscriptions and name and location indexes for those buried in the cemetery. (Bound volume.)

Bath, Widcombe & Lyncombe St Thomas à Becket Survey of Tombstones in the Upper Graveyard of St Thomas à Becket, A Durie, 2001 Documentation of the memorials in the two burial grounds and inside the church including images is in preparation.

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St Mark’s St Mark’s Church, Lyncombe, Bath – Monument Survey, Bath Heraldic Society, 1973, revised by A C Durie, 2000 St Mark’s Cemetery, Lyncombe Bath – Memorial Inscriptions. Widcombe Association, 2009. Documentation of the memorials with images, maps and inscriptions. A separate document has an index for those buried in this cemetery and St Thomas à Becket’s cemeteries from 1825. (Bound volume.)

St Matthew’s Memorial inscriptions inside the church. David L Houldridge, 1983 (22 memorials including war memorials.)

St Mary Magdalen, Holloway St Mary Magdalen Chapel, Bath - Monumental Inscriptions in the Chapel and Graveyard, Bath Heraldic Society, 1974.

Lyncombe & Widcombe and St James Cemetery Indexes for Burials at Lyncombe & Widcombe and St James’ Cemetery, Bath. Widcombe Association. Lyncombe & Widcombe and St James’ Cemetery, Bath – Memorial Inscriptions. Widcombe Association. A 2013 draft of the documentation of the memorials with images, maps and inscriptions. Currently has 90% coverage of the memorials.

Catholic Cemetery, Perrymead A 2012 draft with name and location indexes, inscriptions, images of memorials and maps, produced by Widcombe Association. (3,614 burial entries, 1,555 memorials.)

Baptist Burial Ground, Lyncombe Hill The Old Southcot Burial Ground, Rev K J Birch, 1990. (30 entries)

Society of Friends (Quakers) Burial Ground, Widcombe A list of 151 burials compiled by G Wynne. Supplemented by additional information from the cremation wall and elaboration of names and dates.

Bath, St Michael with St Paul St Michael with St Paul - Memorial Tablets inside the Church by David L Houldridge, 1980 (116 records).

St Michael – List of Inscriptions on Headstones, 1925 (names, date died and age only). The graveyard no longer exists having been built on.

St Michael’s Cemetery, Bath – Burial Indexes, P J Bendall, 2014. Name and location indexes with maps for the cemetery in Lower Weston (3,625 entries)

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Bath, Walcot St Swithin’s St Swithin’s Church, Walcot – Inscriptions on the gravestones on the land adjoining the church, David L Houldridge, 1981 (54 entries) St Swithin’s Church Walcot – Index to Memorials and Gravestones (inside church). (Names and locations but no dates.) St Swithin’s Church, Walcot, Bath – Internal Memorials,PJ Bendall, 2014. (CD) (194 entries) Photographs, maps, inscriptions and background notes.

Plan of Gravestones in the Church’s crypt.

Walcot Burial Ground Walcot Cemetery - Inscriptions on Tombstones by David L Houldridge, 1981. (323 entries) The memorials in the burial ground were moved to an area around the mortuary chapel in 1925 when most of the site was made into a play area for children.

Lansdown Cemetery Lansdown Cemetery – Memorial Inscriptions. Bath Preservation Trust. Documentation of the memorials with images, maps and inscriptions. A 2011 draft of the document produced by Bath Preservation Trust is available.

Locksbrook Cemetery – Walcot and St Saviour’s sections No MI documentation exists. Locksbrook Cemetery, Bath: Walcot Section – Burial Register Index entries, P J Bendall 2012. (29,589 entries) Locksbrook Cemetery, Bath: St Saviour’s Section – Burial Register Index entries,PJ Bendall 2012. (4,522 entries) Name and location indexes. Not yet surveyed.

Walcot Methodist Burial Ground Walcot Methodist Closed Burial Ground – List of Inscriptions on Gravestones and Memorials taken 7/8 Oct 1986. (The burial ground no longer exists having been built on.)

Bath, Haycombe Haycombe Cemetery, Bath – Name Index and Location Index, P J Bendall, Draft 1c 2014 (23,000 entries). Name and location indexes and maps. Limited to burials and does not include cremations without burial of ashes. Currently being surveyed to determine the presence of memorials (12,698 names on memorials identified so far).

Bath, Holy Trinity Memorial Tablets, D L Houldridge (21 entries)

Bath, St John's Hospital Memorial tablets in the chapel, David L Houldridge, 1980 (6 entries)

Bath, St Mary's Catholic Church Memorial Inscriptions, David L Houldridge, 1983 (9 entries)

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Bath, St John the Evangelist Catholic Church Memorial Inscriptions in the Church, recorded by David L Houldridge, 1982. (10 entries, mostly benefactors).

See also Bath, Lyncombe & Widcombe for the Catholic Cemetery in Perrymead.

Bath, Jewish Burial Ground, Combe Down A list of the names that appear on memorials appears in an article by Judith Samuel entitled ‘The Jews of Bath’ which appeared in Bath History I 1986.

Jewish Burial Ground, Combe Down, Bath – Supplementary Notes, P J Bendall, 2012. Map of the burial ground, pictures of the graves, inscriptions and information on the individuals.

Bath, Argyle Chapel Argyle Independent Chapel, Bath - baptismal registers 1783-1854; burial registers 1790- 1890; monumental inscriptions. Transcribed by Sheena M Carter (2003). The burial ground on Snow Hill no longer exists.

Bath, Moravian Burial Ground Legible Gravestones at Moravian Burial Ground, Bath. 1991 List of names, dates and ages with a map of who is buried where. The names in the list and on the map are not wholly consistent.

Bath, Twerton Twerton, Bath: Bellotts Road Cemetery – Burial Indexes, P J Bendall, 2014. (8,430 entries). Name and location indexes, identification of the existence of a memorial and maps.

Bath, Weston All Saints Indexed Transcriptions of the Monumental Inscriptions at All Saints Church Weston Bath. Handwritten transcriptions and a map.

Locksbrook Cemetery – Weston section Locksbrook Cemetery: Weston Section – Burial Register Entries (P J Bendall, 2012). Includes identification of surviving memorials but not MIs.

Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapel Photographs and notes (5 plaques).

Batheaston, St John the Baptist Inscriptions by David L Houldridge, 1980. 142 records.

St John the Baptist, Batheaston – Burial Register Entries 1783-, P J Bendall, 2014. Name and location indexes with identification of the existence of a memorial.

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Bathford, St Swithun Monumental Inscriptions in Bathford Church & Churchyard. Transcribed and indexed by A S Craig, 1978 (amended 1988). Part 1, internal monuments, Part 2, the Old Burial Ground, Part 3 the New Burial Ground. Typescript with surnames indexes for each section and with a plan of the churchyard.

Bathampton, St Nicholas Memorial Inscriptions by Bathampton Local History Society, 2005. Covers the period 1654- 2005. Includes inscriptions inside the church based on George Crozier Cole’s records from 1914.

South Stoke, St James the Great Churchyard Plans and Index by Local History Group (last updated 2007). Available on a CD. This contains images of the memorials and images of handwritten transcripts of the memorial inscriptions.

St Catherine St Catherine Nr Batheaston – Burial Register Entries 1815-, P J Bendall, 2014. Name index with identification of the existence of a memorial.

P J Bendall Bath, July 2014

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