Monument To William Shrubsole, North Section

The monument is a simple, upright sandstone headstone, dated 1806 and relocated in 1964-5. It commemorates William Shrubsole, described as 'Composer of Miles's Lane', and features a shaped top. The inscription includes the opening bars of his well-known hymn tune 'Miles Lane' represented on a musical stave. A secondary inscription at the base records the burials of John and Mary Tolkien. William Shrubsole (c.1760-1806) was a noted musician and teacher, formerly organist at Spa Fields Chapel in Clerkenwell. The monument is located within Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, which was first enclosed in 1665 and became London's principal Nonconformist cemetery. It has group value with other listed tombs in the north section of the Grade I registered Bunhill Fields Burial Ground.