Bath Abbey Cemetery

It features a mortuary chapel, designed by Bath City Architect G. P. Manners in the then fashionable Norman Revival architectural style.

Note that to S. M. Hinds d.1847 signed Reeves, the Bath firm of Monumental masons, that flourished from c.1778 to 1860….

[8][9] A general trend is that the most elaborate monuments belong to individuals formerly residing at the most exclusive addresses.

[10][11] The three-bay double-height chapel was built in 1844 to designs by George Phillips Manners in the Norman Revival architectural style with a prominent west tower over a three-sided open porch / porte cochere.

The chapel is built above a crypt and was planned to be flanked by open cloister wings containing a columbarium and loculi.