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As far as I can see he was not buried in Weston Cemetery.  According to the Catalogue on the Somerset Heritage Centre site  they hold a burial register for Cotford Asylum - have you looked there for his burial?

Have you looked for the records of Gloucestershire County Asylum to see if there are any clues there about what he was doing before admittance?  It seems unusual for his address to still be Meadow Street when he died unless he had returned there at some time.  Was there any family connection with the CARPENTER Family?

I applied for that Death Certificate but found it refered to a James Perry who died age 83 on 11/12/1855 in the Sub-district of Yatton.

Long Ashton Workhouse was situated in the parish of Flax Bourton and was in the Poor Law (and Registration) District of Bedminster.  So the death of a James PERRY registered in the Bedminster District in 1855 is possibly the one you are looking for.  I am not aware that the Workhouse had its own burial ground - there are burials of people who died there in Flax Bourton and Long Ashton.  Some Workhouses sent bodies to their home parishes for burial - do you know where he was living before his admission - he might be buried there.  Although there are a few Admission & Discharge Registers available for the Long Ashton Workhouse (In the Somerset Heritage Centre in Taunton) none have survived for the time of his stay there and the death Register starts in 1866. 

While I'm not able to clarify on the baptism... I found an additional record for consideration in Dec 1784 in St Mary Taunton... the death record would fall under the Bedminster district. A quick search has found a death record for James Perry in Oct Dec 1855 in Bedminster. There are records held at the Somerset Heritage Centre from the workhouse.

What evidence have you got that Thomas MOORE was born in Burnham on Sea?  I note that a marriage between a Thomas MOORE and Anne YEOMANS took place in Ilminster Church in 1762 and that in 1764 presumably their son, Thomas, was christened in the Presbyterian Meeting House at Ilminster (so were two more brothers).   As these christenings were non-conformist it is likely that their father was as well.

Yes, that's the one they are referring to but what proof is there that he was the one who married in Nailsea?  

Looking at our transcriptions of Wraxall baptisms for Charles POPE's children I see that there was Robert & Jane POPE having a child christened in Wraxall as well.  When Robert POPE married Jane at Backwell he was also said to be of Wraxall - perhaps they were brothers?  I had hoped that Robert might have survived until the 1851 census so that we could find out where he was born but unfortunately he died in 1849. The 1841 cnesus states that he was born in Somerset.  Jane, Robert's wife, died in 1807 and he remarried a Sarah WILCOX (a widow) in Bristol in 1813. It might be useful to compare the names of Charles's and Robert's children to see if there are any similarities.

Of course Charles POPE could have been a non-conformist - between 1754 and 1837 everyone except for Quakers and Jews had to be married in the Church of England - which could be why you can't find a christening.

There is a chance that Charles POPE might be mentioned in the Church wardens' or Overseers' accounts for Wraxall which are at the Somerset Heritage Centre in Taunton - perhaps even saying where he came from.