Nash Monument, Christ Church

NASH MONUMENT, CHRIST CHURCH, COMMERCIAL STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1260166
Date first listed:
02-Nov-1995
Statutory Address:
NASH MONUMENT, CHRIST CHURCH, COMMERCIAL STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1260166
Date first listed:
02-Nov-1995
Statutory Address 1:
NASH MONUMENT, CHRIST CHURCH, COMMERCIAL STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
NASH MONUMENT, CHRIST CHURCH, COMMERCIAL STREET

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 33725 81763

Details

TQ 3381 NE COMMERCIAL STREET

788-/14/10061 Nash Monument, Christ Church

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Churchyard memorial c. 1820 or possibly re-used mid-eighteenth century tomb. Portland stone with statuary marble inscription panels. Square obelisk surmounted by a flaming gadrooned urn, on four legs standing on a square pedestal with an entablature and inscription panels on each side. Erected to commemorate members of the Nash family, d. 1820, 1835, 1853 etc. The only churchyard monument to survive at Christ Church, Spitalfields. Source: Survey of London vol. xxvii: Spitalfields and Mile End New Town (1957), 168-69.




Listing NGR: TQ3372581763

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Survey of London in Survey of London - Spitalfields and Mile End New Town Parishes of Christ Church and All Saints and the liberties of Norton Folgate and the Old Artillery Ground:Volume 27, (1957), 168-169

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