Baptist Burial Ground, Lyncombe Hill

The second Baptist Burial Ground is located at the foot of Lyncombe Hill between Southcot Place and Claverton Street. It was part of the grounds of Southcot House and was granted to the Somerset Street Baptist Church by one of its deacons, Opie Smith, in about 1807.

No burial register or burial order books has survived but Kerry Birch notes in his book 'Waters of the Son – Baptists in Georgian Bath' that “The number of burials is unknown although probably considerable, for a correspondent in 1958 noted from the register that between 1807 and 1853 there were 324 children interred in the ground, and 204 of these were under 2 years of age”. There are only 55 surviving memorials.

The graveyard is now owned by Bath Preservation Trust.

Bath Record Office’s Bath Burial Index (https://www.batharchives.co.uk/burial-index) has online documentation by Phil Bendall of the graveyard including images of the memorials, transcriptions of inscriptions and maps.