The Church of All Saints in the village of Wrington, North Somerset. Final resting place of playwright, poet and social reformer Hannah More, and her four sisters.

The village of Wrington and its church of All Saints is hidden away along narrow twisting roads and charming country lanes a few miles west of Redhill on the A38 in North Somerset. 

Arthur Mee beautifully describes Wrington and its church in his The King’s England, Somerset (Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1968):

“Nature made it a fair place, in this lovely country of the Yeo, with a river and a vale and two lines of hills; and the fifteenth century left it fairer still, endowing it with a church crowned by one of Somerset’s noblest towers.”

The Church of All Saints in the village of Wrington, North Somerset.

The family grave of Hannah More and her four sisters in the churchyard of All Saints in Wrington, North Somerset.

Born in Fishponds, Bristol, Hannah More (1745-1833), poet, playwright, and advocate of social reform and the abolition of slavery was one of the most significant women of her times. 

She lived a considerable part of her life, with her sisters, in the vicinity of Wrington; firstly at Cowslip Green where she had a cottage built in 1784, and then at Barley Wood where she had a house built in 1801.  She stayed at Barley Wood until 1828 when, having outlived her sisters and in failing health, she was persuaded by friends to move to Clifton in Bristol.  Upon her death she was buried alongside her sisters in the churchyard of All Saints. 

The modern plaque by the family grave of Hannah More and her sisters.  The words on the gravestone have eroded over time and are difficult to distinguish.