The 18th Century Baptist Chapel and Burial Ground at West Butts Street, Poole, Dorset

by Mckinley, Jacqueline I.; Goller, Rob

• ISBN13: 9781874350453
• ISBN10: 1874350450
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-30
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

An intact, 18th century Baptist burial ground was excavated in Poole, Dorset. The West Butts Street congregation was established in 1735 by 15 named members but dwindled in the 1780s. The chapel was demolished but the burial ground subsequently served a second Baptist community, Hill Street, founded in 1804, until their own church was built in 1813. Documentary research gathered a wealth of information regarding the town, its population and economic status, and the growth and spread of Nonconformity and the Baptist movement. Osteological analysis of 100 individuals has enabled some aspects of the lives of the cemetery's population to be gleaned.

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Foreign language abstracts

Frontispiece: formation of the West Bulls Street church

Introduction

The excavations

The finds from the excavations

The people

Nonconformity and Baptists in 18th century Poole

Epilogue

Endpiece: 1806 registration certificate for the foundation of the Hill Street Baptist Congregation and HIll Street Baptist Church extract from church book

Grave catalogue

Summary of results from analysis of the human bone

Glossary of osteological terminology

Glossary of terminology applied to various 17th-18th century religious groups and related Acts of Parliament

List of unpublished sources consulted in documentary research

Bibliography

Index

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