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Cemetery Near Moor St Station/Fazeley Street

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Yvonne

proper brummie kid
Does anyone know the name of the cemetery near Moor St Station and, if it was connected to a church, which church it was (presumably before it was demolished as I can't see a church nearby). I whizzed past the cemetery on Sunday in the car and think I was on Park Street at the time. The cemetery seems to be quite small and the gravestones old and blackened.

Thank you
 
New Meeting House

This was situated in Moor Street, the church was opened in 1732. In 1861 it was sold to the Roman Catholic Church. It was then concecrated to St Michael. All the remains from this church yard including Joseph Priestley's daughter Sarah Finch were supposedly reinterred in Key Hill. It would be interesting to find out if some graves remained or even headstones.

The picture below is the Finch grave which includes Sarah.
 
location of pubs 1800

i notice there is a pub named on the map of st bartholemews. does anyone know the location of the hen and chickens,Styles Hotel ,and Dadleys hotel around 1805
 
Getting back right on thread, I have found the following account in "Allen's Pictorial Guide of Birmingham", dated 1849.
"In 1807 an act of parliament was obtained, by virtue of which the surrounding buildings, by which the church was much obscured, were taken down, and the space thus obtained added to the churchyard, which is now surrounded by a substantial wall, surmounted with iron palisades. An additional burial ground was also provided, consisting of two acres and a half of land, at the upper extremity of Park Street. The improvements round the church, and the acquisition and formation of the burial ground, entailed upon the inhabitants an expense of between £7000 and £8000, for which an annual levy is made upon them."
No doubt St Bartholomew's churchyard would have been well filled by the 1820s or 1830s, when the Key Hill cemeteries were opened, and of course, Witton was the solved the problem of grave space for over a century.
Peter
 
Interesting to note Peter that a lot of the burial ground in Birmingham were simply paved over, grassed or built upon..St Marys churchyard was described as horrible and shameful and the sexton used to go round with a long iron rod poking the soil to find a few vacant places to bury people and it was estimated that sixty thousand parishioners were buried their before the Intramural burial act came into operation so then gravestone were layed flat and removed and the area grassed over and asphalted in other parts.
With St Martins graveyard as it was slowly built over the graves were opened and the remains re-interned at Witton in a mass grave. But in the Digbeth area most of the burial grounds have just been covered over and vanished
 
Yvonne said:
Does anyone know the name of the cemetery near Moor St Station and, if it was connected to a church, which church it was (presumably before it was demolished as I can't see a church nearby). I whizzed past the cemetery on Sunday in the car and think I was on Park Street at the time. The cemetery seems to be quite small and the gravestones old and blackened.

Thank you
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Hello Yvonne!! That Cemetery would more than likely have belonged to
St' Bartholomews Church. It would have been much bigger in the 18th and 19th Century. My Gr8 Gr8 Grandfather William Cook, was buried there
8th July 1858.
 
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Hello Yvonne!! the Cemetry would more than likely have belonged to
St' Bartholomews Chapel, it would have been much larger in the 18th and 19th Century, my Gr8 Gr8 Grandfather William Cook was buried there 8th July 1858.
 
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