Headstone with Cartouche, East Enclosure is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 2011. Headstone.
Headstone with Cartouche, East Enclosure
- WRENN ID
- moated-crypt-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 2011
- Type
- Headstone
- Address
- Headstone with Cartouche, East Enclosure, Bunhill Fields Burial Ground
- OS grid reference
- TQ 327 822
- Coordinates
- 51.5238, -0.08812
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 18th-century headstone located in the East Enclosure of Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. Made of Portland stone, the monument features an upright slab with a shaped top adorned with elaborate Baroque ornamentation in bold relief. The design includes fluted Corinthian pilasters that frame an auricular cartouche, while scrolled volutes and palm fronds encircle an armorial panel above. The inscription on the headstone is no longer legible.
Bunhill Fields was established as a burial ground in 1665 and became a significant Nonconformist cemetery, being the final resting place for notable figures such as John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, and William Blake. The site was closed for burials in 1853 and transformed into a public park in 1867, later undergoing re-landscaping after war damage in 1964-65.
The headstone is recognized for its distinctive craftsmanship as an example of early 18th-century Baroque funeral sculpture and holds group value with other listed tombs in the east enclosure of the Grade I registered Bunhill Fields Burial Ground.
Local climate
Headstone with Cartouche, East Enclosure 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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