Saint Thomas Episcopal Burying Ground in Taunton, Massachusetts

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Get directions 227 Tremont Street (Route 140)
Taunton, Massachusetts, USA

Coordinates: 41.91059, -71.12701
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This is a privately-owned cemetery. It was established in 1765. The foundation stones of the church that was once here now serve as a modern columbarium.

The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as TAU820.

This cemetery is referred to in the Bristol County Massachusetts Cemeteries Database as TA015.

This cemetery is referred to in the Taunton, MA Vital Records to 1850 Published by: New England Historic Genealogical Society as G.R.15.

This cemetery is at the site of the 1st building of St Thomas Episcopal Church. (circa 1743) The foundation stones of the church (which blew down in 1815) are extant, and within them a modern columbarium has been established. The church was founded by Thomas Coram, the London philanthropist who founded the Fondling Hospital (for which Handel wrote the "Messiah"), who had been Taunton as early as 1698 building ships.