Exterior view of a monument in the City of London Cemetery, marking the reinterment of human remains removed from graveyards disturbed by the creation of Queen Victoria Street

Date:
1860s
Location:
City Of London Cemetery, Newham, Greater London Authority
Reference:
OP04629
Type:
Photograph (Print)
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Description

The monument, erected by the Metropolitan Board of Works, states that the graveyards affected by the creation of Queen Victoria Street were the parishes of St Andrew by the Wardrobe, St Benet, Paul's Wharf, St Mary Magdalen, St Mary Mounthaw, St Nicholas Olave, and St Nicholas Cole Abbey.

Queen Victoria Street was created to link the Victoria Embankment to the Bank of England in 1867-1871.

Content

This is part of the Collection: MBW01 Photographs of Metropolitan Board of Works projects including Crossness

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

Keywords

Victorian Commemorative Monument