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Exeter Quaker Burial Ground

Exeter, City of Exeter, Devon, England – *No GPS coordinates

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  • Wynard's Lane, off Magdelen Street,
    Exeter, City of Exeter, Devon EX2 4HU England

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The Quaker Burial Ground is situated on the opposite side of the road to the Dissenter's Graveyard.
The burial ground is no longer in use for burials. It was used from 1691 until 1907. According to "Thomasson", the gravestones had been removed from their original positions by 1928 and the ground levelled. In total, there were 146 recorded burials as well as three family vaults. Today there are about 60 gravestones, set in two rows on each side of a central yew tree walk and one row on the inside of the southern line of yew trees. (The line of yew trees was aligned with the first meeting house on the site.) Some of the gravestones date from the eighteenth century but most are from the nineteenth.
Not all of the gravestones are of the standard Quaker shape: many have elaborately shaped tops; others are extra wide to accommodate inscriptions commemorating whole families.
Notable burials include those of the moralist and peace advocate Jonathan Dymond (1796-1828) and Joseph Sparkes (1776-1836), a partner in the General Bank which was a precursor of today's Lloyds Bank.
There is no step-free access to the burial ground as this is at a higher level than the meeting house and the access path.
The Quaker Burial Ground is situated on the opposite side of the road to the Dissenter's Graveyard.
The burial ground is no longer in use for burials. It was used from 1691 until 1907. According to "Thomasson", the gravestones had been removed from their original positions by 1928 and the ground levelled. In total, there were 146 recorded burials as well as three family vaults. Today there are about 60 gravestones, set in two rows on each side of a central yew tree walk and one row on the inside of the southern line of yew trees. (The line of yew trees was aligned with the first meeting house on the site.) Some of the gravestones date from the eighteenth century but most are from the nineteenth.
Not all of the gravestones are of the standard Quaker shape: many have elaborately shaped tops; others are extra wide to accommodate inscriptions commemorating whole families.
Notable burials include those of the moralist and peace advocate Jonathan Dymond (1796-1828) and Joseph Sparkes (1776-1836), a partner in the General Bank which was a precursor of today's Lloyds Bank.
There is no step-free access to the burial ground as this is at a higher level than the meeting house and the access path.

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  • Added: 28 Jan 2021
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2723499