All Saints Churchyard
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All Saints Churchyard

Dorchester, West Dorset District, Dorset, England

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    Dorchester, West Dorset District, Dorset DT1 1HF England
    Coordinates: 50.71537, -2.43558
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The site of Dorchester All Saints is considered to have been occupied by a church since the Norman period, although the earliest records date to the 12th century. The original church is believed to have been destroyed by fire in 1613 and subsequently rebuilt. A decision was made to rebuild the church in the mid-19th century, to the designs of Benjamin Ferrey. All Saints became redundant in 1970 and is now used as an archaeological store for the Dorset County Museum.
The memorials in the churchyard are accessible however they are mainly floor slabs which are considerably worn and mostly illegible. The few upright headstones that have been moved against the walls are badly weathered.



The graveyards attached to the churches in Dorchester (St George's, All Saints, the Holy Trinity, and St Peter) were declared to be nearing capacity in a report published in 1852 and burials were to be discontinued on 1st January 1855.

New capacity was acquired first at the Weymouth Avenue Cemetery (now known as Dorchester Cemetery) in 1856 followed by extensions (in 1866 and 1885) to St George's Churchyard (now Fordington Cemetery). By the early 1990s Fordington Cemetery had formally closed and Dorchester Cemetery was approaching capacity so further provision was procured to create Poundbury Cemetery.



The site of Dorchester All Saints is considered to have been occupied by a church since the Norman period, although the earliest records date to the 12th century. The original church is believed to have been destroyed by fire in 1613 and subsequently rebuilt. A decision was made to rebuild the church in the mid-19th century, to the designs of Benjamin Ferrey. All Saints became redundant in 1970 and is now used as an archaeological store for the Dorset County Museum.
The memorials in the churchyard are accessible however they are mainly floor slabs which are considerably worn and mostly illegible. The few upright headstones that have been moved against the walls are badly weathered.



The graveyards attached to the churches in Dorchester (St George's, All Saints, the Holy Trinity, and St Peter) were declared to be nearing capacity in a report published in 1852 and burials were to be discontinued on 1st January 1855.

New capacity was acquired first at the Weymouth Avenue Cemetery (now known as Dorchester Cemetery) in 1856 followed by extensions (in 1866 and 1885) to St George's Churchyard (now Fordington Cemetery). By the early 1990s Fordington Cemetery had formally closed and Dorchester Cemetery was approaching capacity so further provision was procured to create Poundbury Cemetery.



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  • Added: 23 Jul 2018
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2669648