Abbey Cemetery
Victorian hillside garden cemetery with a neo-Norman chapel, catacombs and marble monuments.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Abbey Cemetery in Bath starts with a council repair bill from nineteen ninety-two and follows the money and the masonry of a Victorian hillside laid out by John Claudius Loudon. You'll meet the Abbey verger whose stone workshop grew with the graves, and look closely at a Norman-style chapel that was meant to be bigger than it is. Best heard on the slope below the chapel, facing its tower.
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