The cemetery for the Somerset County Lunatic Asylum opened in 1874 (Bath Chronicle of Thu 6 Aug 1874 p3). According to the burial register the first burial occurred in 1874. The ground was extended in 1921 by one and a third acres (0.54 ha), this additional ground being consecrated by the Bishop of Bath & Wells (Wells Journal Fri 9 Dec 1921). It closed in 1962 with subsequent burials occurring at Wells Cemetery at Portway run by the City Council. The hospital closed in 1991, the building and grounds at South Horrington being converted into houses and flats. As might be expected there are very few memorials, about two dozen survive and four of these are for members of the staff. However, the plots have numeric markers in cast iron. Unlike church and municipal cemeteries each plot was used, in almost all cases, for burying just one individual. About 20% of those buried had an abode of Bath.