NHER 63555 (Monument record) - Site of Quaker burial ground, New Conduit Street

The Society of Friends has existed in King's Lynn since at least 1655. Their earliest meeting places are not known, but (S1) dating from 1741 marks a 'meeting house' which seems to denote the original Quaker meeting house in New Conduit Street (NHER 63553).
The Quaker burial ground was located during excavations in 2005 (NHER 37719 and NHER 37722).
Thirty graves containing the skeletal remains of 34 individuals were excavated within the precinct of the Friends' Meeting House. From Quaker burial registers it appears that 24 burials dated from 1784
to 1835. The remaining burials were not recorded. On the basis of coffin styles, one appeared earlier whilst nine were broadly consistent with this period. The burial ground contained 24 earth-cut and six brick shaft graves, arranged in three north–south rows. There was only one example of intercutting graves, however. One outlier grave (NHER 37722) was located to the south of the group, cutting two earlier medieval tenement walls. The rectangular coffin in this burial was more characteristic of a pre-1730 date, and hence may pre-date the other burials by at least several decades. One earth-cut grave contained the remains of three burials laid vertically one above one another, whilst one earth-cut grave and one brick shaft grave contained two burials. It is probable that these were burials of family members. All the graves were aligned east–west. Within them the skeletons lay supine and extended, with their heads to the west in all but one case. Analysis of the skeletal remains suggests a relatively aged population, with only two children within the cemetery. Burial records detail professions suggesting a relatively middle class community, and the osteological analysis supports this assessment.
See (S2) for further information.
Information from (S1).
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 4 February 2020.