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Latitude: 51.5236 / 51°31'25"N
Longitude: -0.0881 / 0°5'17"W
OS Eastings: 532735
OS Northings: 182258
OS Grid: TQ327822
Mapcode National: GBR S7.CZ
Mapcode Global: VHGQT.FY8V
Plus Code: 9C3XGWF6+FQ
Entry Name: Monument to Joseph Waddington, East Enclosure
Listing Date: 21 February 2011
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1396518
English Heritage Legacy ID: 508551
ID on this website: 101396518
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
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635-1/0/10215 BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND
21-FEB-11 Monument to Joseph Waddington, East en
closure
GV II
Headstone of Joseph Waddington, 1786
LOCATION: 532734.6, 182257.2
MATERIAL: Slate
DESCRIPTION: The monument is an upright slate slab with a shaped top. The carved face is framed by a decorative border of a repeating lozenge design. The top of the slab is filled with incised floral ornament, and there is similar carving at the base. The text comprises a simple memorial inscription to Joseph Waddington (d.1786) and, below, a verse epitaph, separated by a further band of carving.
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).
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The monument to Joseph Waddington is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* It is a well-preserved late-C18 headstone bearing good-quality carved text and decoration.
* 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 east enclosure.
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