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Wesleyan Chapel-ground, City Road. All tidily laid out. Part of the the area at the back of the chapel is paved, yet with tombstones in situ underneath a modern building raised on pillars; the appearance is somewhat bizarre. ½ acre. The part in front of the chapel is neatly kept, but the part behind is closed and not so tidy. Wesley himself was buried in a vault here. (Holmes) |
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Bunhill Fields. Tidy, but still very much a graveyard. The crowded tombstones give a vivid picture of the appearance of most London grounds a hundred years ago. Burial place of Blake, Bunyan, and Defoe. During the first part of the nineteenth century around 1000 burials a year took place here. In 1841 a letter to The Times complained of its foul smell, affecting “particularly females of high nervous sensibility, who are doomed by their necessities to domicile in the neighbourhood of such localities”. 5 or 6 acres. This was originally two grounds, the southern part having been intended for burials in the Great Plague, but not being used was let by the Corporation to a Mr. John Tyndall, who carried it on as a private cemetery. Subsequently the northern part was added, and the whole ground extensively used for the interment of Dissenters. The Corporation maintain it as a public garden, but the tombstones have not been moved, and only the gates at the eastern end are generally open. (Holmes) |
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The Friend’s Burial Ground, Bunhill Row. Remaining portion now a small park and playground. The Memorial Building is still there. The remainder of the ground has some low-rise housing on it. Acquired in 1661, many times added to, and chiefly used by the Friends of the Peel and Bull-and-Mouth divisions. In 1840 a school was built in it. The existing portion is about ½ acre in size, and is neatly kept as a private garden; but the remainder was used as the site for a Board School, a coffee palace, houses and shops, including the Bunhill Fields Memorial Buildings, erected in 1881. (Holmes) |
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Thomas', Golden Lane |
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