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Monumental Inscriptions Cemeteries and Graveyards of Bristol
Image right St Andrew's churchyard, Clifton Bristol
Image Geograph © Copyright Derek Harper and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.
Today Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England. Historically in Gloucestershire, the city received a Royal charter in 1155 and was granted County status in 1373. From the 13th century, for half a millennium, it ranked among the top three English cities after London, alongside York and Norwich. It borders the counties of Somerset and Gloucestershire, and is also located near the historic cities of Bath to the south east and Gloucester to the north. The city is built around the River Avon, and it also has a short coastline on the Severn Estuary, which flows into the Bristol Channel.
The aim of this project is to gather together information regarding cemeteries and graveyards in Bristol which either have available transcriptions or have been photographed and transcribed.
Please update the project by adding links to any available monumental inscriptions or pages where images of the graves/cemeteries can be seen - mostly Billion Graves or Find a Grave.
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- The Church Monuments Society entries added as at 17/04/2014
List of Graveyards and Cemeteries
The following list will probably need refining as not all places have cemeteries
Bristol
All Saints Church (Bristol)
All Saints - Corn Street
Arnos Vale Cemetery'
- Arnos Vale Cemetery Wiki page
- Billion Graves Page ✘
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission CWGC
- Find a Grave
Arnos Vale Crematorium
- Arnos Vale maintains digitally scanned records of all burials and cremations from 1839 to August 2003. These and the more recent records can be manually searched by our trained staff to find information about the deceased, who else is buried in the grave the location of the grave and other interesting information such as the person's occupation or last address.
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission CWGC
- Find a Grave
Arnos Vale Roman Catholic Cemetery
Avon View Cemetery
Birdcage Walk Cemetery
Bishopston, St Michael & All Angels
Also known as: Bristol, St Michael & All Angels, Bishopston, St Michael & All Angels, Bishopston
Black Friars Priory
Brislington Cemetery
Bristol Cathedral
Also known as: Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity
Bristol Cenotaph
- War Memorials Online (Images)
Bristol Burma Star
- War Memorials Online (Images)
Bristol City Hall Servicewomen Memorial
- War Memorials Online (Images)
Bristol Kingswood Methodist Church Pillar
- War Memorials Online (Images)
Bristol Jewish Cemetery
Bristol Prison Cemetery
Bristol South Cemetery and Crematorium
Also known as: South Bristol Cemetery and Crematorium
Bristol Woodlands Cemetery
- Find a Grave 2 entries
Brunswick Cemetery
Upper York Street
Brunswick Square Unitarian Burying Ground
Burma Star Bristol Seat
- War Memorials Online (Images)
Canford Cemetery & Crematorium
Cemetery of the Holy Souls
Also known as: Arnos Vale, Holy Souls Catholic Cemetery, Bristol, Arnos Vale Roman Catholic Cemetery, Holy Souls Catholic Cemetery
...adjacent to Arnos Vale Cemetery was established in the 1860's when it was acquired by the Catholic church due to generosity of a Liverpudlian businessman. Within the last few years, a decision was made to limit burials at the cemetery to existing graves only. The first burial was in 1867 and the first register covers the period 1867 to June 1886. The entries in theis register are in Latin. There are six further registers, in English, covering the period 27th June 1886 to the present day. Unfortunately, the second register, covering the period January 1904 to February 1922 is missing. The original old registers are held in the Diocesan archives in Alexandra House, Pennywell Road, Bristol.
Christ Church - Broad Street
City of Bristol Greenbank Cemetery
Civilian War Dead
- Find a Grave 1223 entries
Clifton Cathedral
Great Gardens Rose Street:
...was established in 1811 when a Jewish businessman set aside part of his land for use as a burial ground. The land was purchased by the Great Western Railway in 1913. In 1924 27 remaining tombstones were removed and erected in the Jewish Ridgeway cemetery (see below).
Greenbank Cemetery
- Beneath Thy Feet Greenbank Cemetery - numerous images
- Billion Graves page 1 ✘
- Billion Graves page 2 ✘
- Find a Grave
Hebron Road Burial Ground
- Find a Grave 3 entries
Henbury Cemetery
Historic Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Andrew's Road
Holy Trinity - Trinity Road - St. Philips
Lord Mayor's Chapel
or St. Marks - opposite the Cathedral
Mangotsfield Cemetery
Westerleigh Road
Redland Parish Churchyard
Redland green Road
Ridgeway Jewish Cemetery
Also known as: Bristol, Jewish Cemetery ...established in the 1890's and the first burial there was in 1898. The cemetery continues in use today.
Ridgeway Park Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission CWGC
St Andrew Montpelier
St. Ann's Churchyard
St. Leonard's Road
Saint Augustine-the-Less Parish Church Cemetery
St George
St James Parish
St. James - Whitson Street
St. James Priory
St. John the Baptist
Also known as Bristol, St John the Baptist - Towere Lane
St. Leonard Church
St. Mark's Church
St. Mary Magdalene
Mariners Drice
St. Mary the Virgin Churchyard
Also known as: Henbury Parish Church, Henbury, St Mary Church Cemetery
St Mary Redcliffe
Also known as: Bristol, St Mary Redcliffe Churchyard, Bristol, St Mary the Virgin Churchyard
- Billion Graves Page ✘
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission CWGC
- Find a Grave
- The Church Monuments Society
St. Michael - St. Michael's Hill
St Nicholas Churchyard
St. Nicholas - High Street
St Pauls Churchyard
St. Paul - Portland Square
St Peter Churchyard
St. Peter and St. Paul Church
Lower Ashley Road
St. Philips: Barton Road
...was established in the 1740's and the earliest identified tombstone is dated 1762. It continued in use until the 1900's and the last burial took place there in 1944.
- Jewish Cemeteries: Search
St. Philip's and St. Jacob's
St. Stephen's Church - St. Stephen's Avenue
St. Thomas Church
St Werburgh's
Shirehampton Cemetery
- Bristol and Avon FHS Monumnetal Inscriptions] 1679 graves indexed by surname.
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission CWGC
- Find a Grave
South Bristol Cemetery ans Crematorium
Bridgewater Road
Temple Church
Whitefields Tabernacle, Kingswood
London Street
Whitefriars Church
The 1848 act discontinued burials at the following locations in Bristol:-
- All Saints church and passage
- Christchurch in the crypt, churchyard and Pithay burial ground
- St Augustine-the-less churchyard
- St Michael's churchyard
- St James's churchyard
- St John-the-Baptist churchyard
- St Mary Redcliffe churchyard
- St Nicholas, in the crypt and before the church
- St Peter's churchyard
- SS Philip & Jacob's churchyard
- St Stephen's churchyard
- St Thomas's chancel churchyard and new burial ground
- St Werburgh's churchyard
- Temple churchyard
- Dolman's burial ground, Pennywell Street
- Francis's burial ground, West Street
- Howland's burial ground Newfoundland Street
- Rackhay burial ground
- Thomas's burial ground near Clarence Place
- Welch burial ground
- William's burial ground, West Street
- The Infirmary burial ground
- Broadmead chapel yard
- St Joseph's Roman Catholic chapel
- St Paul, Trenchard Street
- Counterslip Baptist chapel