Monument to Joseph Jenkins, Middle Enclosure
MONUMENT TO JOSEPH JENKINS, MIDDLE ENCLOSURE, BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396527
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to Joseph Jenkins, Middle Enclosure
- Statutory Address:
- MONUMENT TO JOSEPH JENKINS, MIDDLE ENCLOSURE, BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396527
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to Joseph Jenkins, Middle Enclosure
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONUMENT TO JOSEPH JENKINS, MIDDLE ENCLOSURE, BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MONUMENT TO JOSEPH JENKINS, MIDDLE ENCLOSURE, BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Islington (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32668 82264
Details
635-1/0/10228 BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND 21-FEB-11 Monument to Joseph Jenkins, Middle enc losure
GV II Headstone of Joseph Jenkins, early C19
LOCATION: 532668.3, 182263.6
MATERIALS: Sandstone
DESCRIPTION: The monument takes the form of an upright stone slab with a shaped top. The inscription commemorates the Revd Joseph Jenkins D.D. along with his daughters Sarah and Priscilla, both of whom died in 1801 aged seven and eleven respectively. A verse beneath reads: 'Corruption and worms / Shall but refine this flesh / Till my triumphant spirit comes / To put it on afresh.'
HISTORY: Joseph Jenkins (1743-1819) was born in Wrexham and educated in London and at King's College, Aberdeen. After graduating in 1765 he moved to London, where he was baptised at Samuel Stennett's church in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Around 1770 he returned to Wrexham, becoming pastor of the joint Baptist-Independent church known as the Old Meeting, formerly presided over by his father. His twenty-year incumbency was marked by disputes over doctrine and the practice of infant baptism, which he strenuously opposed. He returned to London in 1795, serving as minister to various congregations before founding a new church in the Old Kent Road. He published a number of sermons and devotional works, and was made Doctor of Divinity by the University of Edinburgh in 1790.
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). J H Y Briggs, entry on Jenkins in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, www.oxforddnb.com (retrieved on 9 June 2009).
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The monument to Joseph Jenkins is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is a well-preserved early-C19 headstone commemorating a leading Particular Baptist minister and writer of the late 1700s. * 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 middle enclosure.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 508567
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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