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Baptist Chapel or Meeting House Burial Ground

Memorials	:	30
Location	:	Wellington, Taunton Deane Borough, England
Description	:	PLEASE DON'T ADD PHOTO REQUESTS TO ANY BURIAL IN THIS PLACE. The graveyard was levelled in 1907. According to the earliest actual register which has been preserved at Somerset House, London, the "Chapel or Meeting House called the Baptist Chapel of the particular Baptist denomination, situate in Wellington in the County of Somerset [was] founded about the year 1750". On 02 April 1731, an indenture between Philip Perry and others granted, for £11 10s, "for the full and absolute term of two thousand years from the date of this Indenture . . . a plot of ground for erecting 'a convenient Meeting... Read More	PLEASE DON'T ADD PHOTO REQUESTS TO ANY BURIAL IN THIS PLACE. The graveyard was levelled in 1907. According to the earliest actual register which has been preserved at Somerset House, London, the "Chapel or Meeting House called the Baptist Chapel of the particular Baptist denomination, situate in Wellington in the County of Somerset [was] founded about the year 1750". On 02 April 1731, an indenture between Philip Perry and others granted, for £11 10s, "for the full and absolute term of two thousand years from the date of this Indenture . . . a plot of ground for erecting 'a convenient Meeting House thereon to be set apart and used for the worship of the ever blessed Trinity by a Congregation of' Baptists". According to the 1731/2 will of the same Phillip Perry, this property was mentioned as "a plot of ground part of the said premises heretofore sold in ffee on which the Anabaptist Meeting House in Wellington was erected and is now standing and the Burying Ground and Garden adjoining thereto and enclosed therewith by a Brick Wall and other fences". This seems to make it clear that burials, although not recorded in extant registers or record books, were being done by the Baptist Chapel members before 1731. The Baptists had been worshipping at Wellington since 1693 or 1694, having increased so much by 1697 [more than 200] that they were forced to hire "a house to worship God in". The following REGISTERS are extant concerning the births and deaths of the Baptists of Wellington: 1) A book containing Births from 1714 to 1783. 2) A Register of Births, 1785 to 1796; and Burials, 1784 to 1794. 3) A Register of Births, 1795-1837, and Burials, 1804-1831. 4) A Register of Burials, 1849-1884. 5) Deaths, 1904-1911, from the Church Manual. According to "Materials for the History of the Town and Parish of Wellington in the County of Somerset", A.L. Humphreys, 1908: "By an Order in Council 24 March, 1873, burials in the chapel were wholly forbidden, and interments in the burial-ground of the Baptists were to be discontinued on and after 1 January, 1874, except in vaults and walled graves existing on 1 November, 1872, in which each coffin shall be embedded in charcoal and separately enclosed by stonework or brickwork properly cemented, and except also in other graves for the burial of the widowers, widows, or parents of those previously buried in the burial-ground. The date of the discontinuance of interment in the burial-ground was posted to 31 December, 1874, by an Order in Council dated 7 July, 1874." According to the same source: "In this year [1907] the boundary wall of the graveyard facing South Street and Bulford Lane was taken down and replaced by one of red brick with a coping of white bricks surmounted by iron railings. THE GRAVEYARD WAS LEVELLED . . . The burial ground has been buried over several times during its existence. In 1907, when the Centenary addition to the Sunday School Building was made, all the graves were levelled and the ground planted with shrubs, &c."

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