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Latitude: 51.5232 / 51°31'23"N
Longitude: -0.0894 / 0°5'21"W
OS Eastings: 532647
OS Northings: 182204
OS Grid: TQ326822
Mapcode National: GBR S8.24
Mapcode Global: VHGQT.DZL6
Plus Code: 9C3XGWF6+76
Entry Name: Monument to Alexander Henry and Family, South Enclosure
Listing Date: 21 February 2011
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1396505
English Heritage Legacy ID: 508622
ID on this website: 101396505
Location: Shoreditch, Islington, London, EC1Y
County: London
District: Islington
Electoral Ward/Division: Bunhill
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Islington
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Giles Cripplegate
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Monument
635-1/0/10255 BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND
21-FEB-11 Monument to Alexander Henry and family
, South enclosure
GV II
Table tomb of Alexander Henry and family, 1809
LOCATION: 532646.4, 182203
MATERIALS: Portland stone with sandstone lid
DESCRIPTION: The monument takes the form of a stone table, with a moulded top and a supporting structure of dumb-bell section - i.e. concave on its long sides and bowed on the short ends. This substructure is treated as an elongated Gothic pier with multiple mouldings at cap and base. Both sides and ends have ogee-arched panels; that on the eastern end reads ALEXR. HENRY Family Vault 1809.
HISTORY: Bunhill Fields was first enclosed as a burial ground in 1665. Thanks to its location just outside the City boundary, and its independence from any Established place of worship, it became London's principal Nonconformist cemetery, the burial place of John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, William Blake and other leading religious and intellectual figures. It was closed for burials in 1853, laid out as a public park in 1867, and re-landscaped following war damage by Bridgewater and Shepheard in 1964-5.
SOURCES: Corporation of London, A History of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground (1902).
A W Light, Bunhill Fields (London, 1915).
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The monument to Alexander Henry is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* It is a well-preserved early-C19 table tomb of highly unusual Gothick form.
* It is located within the Grade I registered Bunhill Fields Burial Ground (q.v.), and has group value with the other listed tombs in the south enclosure.
DCMS agree- list at Grade II.
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