Walls Enclosing Friends Burial Ground

SW 97 NE ST MINVER HIGHLANDS 4/259 Walls enclosing Friends - Burial Ground II Walls to Quaker burial ground. Circa 1690, partly rebuilt in 1883 (date stone). Stone rubble walls with slate coping enclosing burial ground which is square-on-plan. Entrance near centre of front (north-east) elevation. High enclosing wall with square corner piers and pair of square entrance piers with moulded caps. Slate commemorative plaque on front left. Burial ground planted with mature deciduous trees and partly overgrown. Maclean records that there were a considerable number of Quakers in St. Minver at the end of the C17. In circa 1690 a meeting house and small burial ground were erected on the site. By 1879 there was no trace of the meeting house and in 1883 the enclosing wall to the disused burial ground was partly rebuilt. Maclean, Sir John Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor in the County of Cornwall. 1879 vol III

Listing NGR: SW9548477876