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Showing posts with label Grave. Show all posts

29/08/2011

Beddome Gravestone 02

At the same site is this with the words below.
The stone in the centre of the grove is a memorial to Rev Benjamin Beddome erected by his great grandchildren. The wording states that he was 'Interred near this spot where the chapel formerly stood'. The stone is located in the Old Burying Ground, Cemetery Lane, Bourton on the Water. The 'chapel' was an early Baptist Meeting House, probably the second to be erected on this site. A new meeting house was opened in Station Road, Bourton on the Water, in 1875 and the old chapel was eventually demolished.

Beddome Gravestone 01

For some reason I've never included anything on Beddome's grave. On findagrave under Beddome's name I found three pictures and some text. The first picture is of a headstone.
Underneath it says
The rather moss-covered memorial stone to Rev Benjamin Beddome in the Old Burying Ground, Bourton on the Water. The inscription reads: Sacred to the Memory of Benjamin Beddome Born 1717 Died 1795 For 52 years Pastor of the Baptist Chapel Interred near this spot where the chapel formerly stood This stone was erected by his great grandchildren.