Built in 1814 and located in Avenida Sete de Setembro, more specifically Ladeira da Barra, it is the principal heritage site of the British community in Bahia.

Some of them decided to stay and open businesses after the Navigation and Trade Treaty was signed in 1810; it guaranteed lower tariffs for British products brought to Brazil.

The British had a competitive advantage that led them to dominate the Brazilian market and form significant communities in port cities such as Salvador, Recife and Rio de Janeiro.

[7] The Navigation and Trade Treaty changed that situation for the British people living in Brazil; they were the main commercial partners of Portugal and, yet, were having difficulty in practicing their Protestant faith in a country where the state religion was Catholicism.

It is believed that the Church of Santo Antônio da Barra and the British Cemetery were connected by a portal until the mid-nineteenth century, which would have been proof of a peaceful relationship between Catholics and Anglicans in Salvador.

[10] The Methodist missionary Daniel Parish Kidder described the white walls of British Cemetery among other structures visible from the entrance of the Bay of All Saints in 1839.

[10][6][1][5] In 2008, the Saint George's Society, in a case heard by the Supreme Federal Court, was exempted from paying R$41,831 in property tax to the city of Salvador.

[10] In 2009, the Anglican Parish of the Good Shepherd legally separated from the Saint George Society, who has since administered the British Cemetery as a non-profit organization.