Monument To David Nasmith, South Enclosure

The monument is a headstone of 1839, restored in 1935, located within the South Enclosure of Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. Constructed from Portland stone and originally whitewashed, it takes the form of an upright stone slab with a pedimented top. The primary inscription names David Nasmith as a founder of the City Missions and details his birth and death dates. A secondary inscription records the monument's restoration by friends of the London City Mission during the society’s centenary year.

David Nasmith (1799-1839) was a significant early 19th-century evangelical leader and the founder of the City Mission movement, which continues today as a worldwide association dedicated to ministering to the spiritual and physical needs of the urban poor. Born and educated in Glasgow, he founded the Glasgow City Mission in 1826, becoming a model for similar organisations internationally. He helped establish over thirty mission groups in North America during a tour in 1830, and subsequently co-founded the London City Mission with Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton in 1835.

Bunhill Fields Burial Ground was first enclosed in 1665, and as a location outside the City boundary and independent of any established place of worship, it became London's principal Nonconformist cemetery. The ground was laid out as a public park in 1867 and re-landscaped after war damage in 1964-5. The monument is listed at Grade II for its commemoration of a key evangelical figure and for its group value alongside other listed tombs within the South Enclosure of the Grade I registered Bunhill Fields Burial Ground.