Avon View mortuary chapel
Introduction
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Avon View mortuary chapel
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 2 Feb 2022
As the expansion of the population of Bristol increased in the nineteenth century but the local churchyards did not follow suit, it became clear that more room for burials was desperately needed. It took the Public Health Act of 1848 to oblige authorities not to overload the existing sites and provide new sites. Avon View opened in 1883 and has expanded its limits on more occasions since. At the centre of the older part is this mortuary chapel, listed initially as Unsectarian.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.457588
Longitude
-2.545152