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Nash Monument, Christ Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Spitalfields & Banglatown, London

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Latitude: 51.519 / 51°31'8"N

Longitude: -0.074 / 0°4'26"W

OS Eastings: 533725

OS Northings: 181763

OS Grid: TQ337817

Mapcode National: GBR W9.JN

Mapcode Global: VHGR0.N2QW

Plus Code: 9C3XGW9G+H9

Entry Name: Nash Monument, Christ Church

Listing Date: 2 November 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1260166

English Heritage Legacy ID: 441471

ID on this website: 101260166

Location: Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, London, E1

County: London

District: Tower Hamlets

Electoral Ward/Division: Spitalfields & Banglatown

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Tower Hamlets

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: Christ Church Spitalfields

Church of England Diocese: London

Tagged with: Monument

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Description


TQ 3381 NE COMMERCIAL STREET

788-/14/10061 Nash Monument, Christ Church

II


Churchyard memorial c. 1820 or possibly re-used mid-eighteenth century tomb. Portland stone with statuary marble inscription panels. Square obelisk surmounted by a flaming gadrooned urn, on four legs standing on a square pedestal with an entablature and inscription panels on each side. Erected to commemorate members of the Nash family, d. 1820, 1835, 1853 etc. The only churchyard monument to survive at Christ Church, Spitalfields. Source: Survey of London vol. xxvii: Spitalfields and Mile End New Town (1957), 168-69.


Listing NGR: TQ3372581763

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