Abbey News: Bath Abbey have created a website to chart the hundreds of tablets and memorials with a database on the website to enable the public to find out more about the wide range of people connected to the Abbey. There are also transcripts of the inscriptions on the memorials, translated from Latin.
Examples include William Oliver who was an army surgeon and involved in the Duke of Monmouth’s failed rebellion against King James II in 1685. And Ann Partis who died in1846 and inherited a fortune which she used to establish an alms house for gentlewomen in 1825 called Partis College in Bath. Today, it continues to provide housing for retired women.
And less altruistic there are memorials to owners of slave plantations which the Abbey is keen explain, apologise for but also to contextualize. See www.bathabbeymemorials.org.uk
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