The Dissenters' Wall
The Dissenters' wall was
built between 1848 and 1850. It divided the older
Nonconformist part of the cemetery from the consecrated
Anglican ground.
The wall runs, almost
uninterrupted, from the perimeter wall on Cemetery Road to
the path beside the Porter Brook at the bottom of the
cemetery.
It is a low stone wall - only three feet in height - and
capped with coping stones.
It did not intrude but
nevertheless it also acted as an important symbolic marker:
it was a subtle statement of the division between
Nonconformist and Anglican beliefs.
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