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Latitude: 51.3714 / 51°22'16"N
Longitude: -2.3479 / 2°20'52"W
OS Eastings: 375877
OS Northings: 163645
OS Grid: ST758636
Mapcode National: GBR 0QJ.TFZ
Mapcode Global: VH96M.8S3L
Plus Code: 9C3V9MC2+GR
Entry Name: Abbey Cemetery Partis Tomb
Listing Date: 15 October 2010
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1396338
English Heritage Legacy ID: 511743
ID on this website: 101396338
Location: Bath Abbey Cemetery, Perrymead, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA2
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bath
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Tomb
RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
656-1/0/0 Abbey Cemetery
Partis Tomb
GV II*
Tomb of Ann Partis (d.1846).
Neo-classical two-stage memorial. White marble, Pennant base. A Roman altar-like design with Soanian anthemion finials to corners of upper stage. Crossed palm reliefs to lower stages. Marble inscription (weathered) records her notable deeds of charity: `Blessed with wealth her constant care was to use it to the glory of God and the benefit, temporal and eternal, of her fellow creatures. With the entire approval of her husband who left all his property at her sole disposal: she built and endowed a college, which bears his name, at Weston¿ for the repose, the relief, and the spiritual consolation of thirty gentlewomen, reduced by widowhood or orphanage from affluence to privations and distress¿.
HISTORY: The foundress of Partis College [q.v.] of 1825-27, she lived at 58 Pulteney Street. A prominent monument to one of the leading Bath philanthropists.
Listing NGR: ST758635
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