Monument to William Shrubsole, North Section is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 2011. Monument.
Monument to William Shrubsole, North Section
- WRENN ID
- low-railing-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 2011
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to William Shrubsole, North Section, Bunhill Fields Burial Ground
- OS grid reference
- TQ 326 823
- Coordinates
- 51.52405, -0.08941
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Monument to William Shrubsole, North Section sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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