Monument to General William and Catherine Booth in Abney Park Cemetery

Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 0LH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257360
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:: Monument to General William and Catherine Booth in Abney Park Cemetery
Statutory Address:: Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 0LH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257360
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:: Monument to General William and Catherine Booth in Abney Park Cemetery
Statutory Address 1:: Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 0LH

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 0LH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Hackney (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 33342 86616

Details

TQ 3386 735/12/10059 STOKE NEWINGTON HIGH STREET, N16 (west side) Monument to General William and Catherine Booth in Abney Park Cemetery

GV II Monument to General William Booth (1829-1912) and his wife Catherine (1829-1890). Sandstone shield, renewed, with gilt lettering, behind a kerbed plot. Booth was the founder of the Salvation Army in 1878 and his wife is known as the 'mother' of the movement. Listed because of their supreme importance in the late Victorian development of non-conformity.

Listing NGR: TQ3334286616

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.