Monument to John Conder, North Section
MONUMENT TO JOHN CONDER, NORTH SECTION, BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396546
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to John Conder, North Section
- Statutory Address:
- MONUMENT TO JOHN CONDER, NORTH SECTION, BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396546
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to John Conder, North Section
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONUMENT TO JOHN CONDER, NORTH SECTION, BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND
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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.
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 JOHN CONDER, NORTH SECTION, 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 32646 82289
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/02/2013
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BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND
Monument to John Conder, North section
GV
II
Headstone and footstone of John Conder, renewed 1869
LOCATION: 532646.3, 182289.2
MATERIALS: Portland stone, whitewashed
DESCRIPTION: The monument comprises a headstone and a smaller footstone, both simple upright slabs with arched tops bearing carved and painted text. The footstone is inscribed 'Dr Conder 1781'; the headstone gives brief details of Conder's life and career, and gives an English translation of Conder's original Latin epitaph: 'I have sinned, I have repented, I have trusted, I have loved, I shall rest, I shall arise, and through the grace of Christ, however unworthy, I shall reign.' An inscription at the base records the monument's renewal in 1869.
HISTORY: John Conder (1714-81) was a noted Independent minister, preacher and tutor. Born in Cambridgeshire and educated at Hitchin Grammar School and various Dissenting academies, he began his career as minister at Hog Hill Independent Church in Cambridge, moving to London in 1754 to become classical tutor at the Kings Head Society Academy at Mile End and, from 1762, minister at the chapel on Little Moorfields in the City. He published a number of lectures and sermons on moral and doctrinal issues, and was later awarded an honorary doctorate by Aberdeen University.
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. The latter scheme involved clearing the tombs in the cemetery's northern enclosure; Conder's tomb was one of those selected for retention and relocation.
SOURCES: Corporation of London, A History of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground (1902).
A W Light, Bunhill Fields (London, 1915).
JHY Briggs, entry on Conder in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, www.oxforddnb.com (retrieved on 9 June 2009).
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The monument to John Conder is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* It commemorates a noted C18 Nonconformist preacher and tutor.
* 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 north section.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 508581
- 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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