MONUMENT TO LADY AGNES ERSKINE, NORTH SECTION

MONUMENT TO LADY AGNES ERSKINE, NORTH SECTION, BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396549
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-2011
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT TO LADY AGNES ERSKINE, NORTH SECTION
Statutory Address:: MONUMENT TO LADY AGNES ERSKINE, NORTH SECTION, BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396549
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-2011
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT TO LADY AGNES ERSKINE, NORTH SECTION
Statutory Address 1:: MONUMENT TO LADY AGNES ERSKINE, NORTH SECTION, BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND

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.

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

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:: MONUMENT TO LADY AGNES ERSKINE, 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 32642 82309

Details

635-1/0/10243 BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND 21-FEB-11 Monument to Lady Agnes Erskine, North Section

GV II Chest tomb of Lady Agnes Erskine, early C19

LOCATION: 532642.2, 182308.8

MATERIALS: Brick with stone lid

DESCRIPTION: The monument takes the form of a simple brick chest with a flat, stone lid; one end bears a stone plaque with Lady Anne's name.

HISTORY: Lady Anne Agnes Erskine (1739-1804) was born in Edinburgh, the daughter of the 10th Earl of Buchan. In 1765, whilst living with her father at Walcot in Somerset, she became acquainted with Selina, countess of Huntingdon, a leading evangelical and the founder of a network of chapels known as the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. The two women later shared a house adjoining the chapel at Spa Fields in London, and after the countess' death Lady Anne was one of four trustees who took on the administrative affairs of the Connexion, with particular responsibility for recruiting new ministers.

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; Lady Anne's tomb was one of those selected for retention.

SOURCES: Corporation of London, A History of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground (1902). A W Light, Bunhill Fields (London, 1915). E Dorothy Graham, entry on Lady Anne Erskine in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, www.oxforddnb.com (retrieved on 9 June 2009).

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The monument to Lady Anne Erskine is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * While modest in design and materials, this early C19 tomb commemorates one of the most important female figures of late-C18 Nonconformity, who played a key role in the development of the evangelical grouping known as the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. * 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.

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Legacy System number:: 508584
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.