Monument To Joseph Jenkins, Middle Enclosure

The monument is an early 19th-century sandstone headstone located within the Middle Enclosure of Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. It commemorates the Revd Joseph Jenkins D.D., who lived from 1743 to 1819, along with his daughters Sarah and Priscilla, who died in 1801 at ages seven and eleven respectively. The top of the stone is shaped, and a verse reads: 'Corruption and worms / Shall but refine this flesh / Till my triumphant spirit comes / To put it on afresh.'

Joseph Jenkins was born in Wrexham and educated in London and at King's College, Aberdeen. He served as a Baptist minister in Wrexham and later in London, founding a church in the Old Kent Road and publishing numerous sermons and devotional works. He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree by the University of Edinburgh in 1790.

Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, first enclosed in 1665, served as London's principal Nonconformist cemetery. The monument has group value with other listed tombs within the Middle Enclosure, and contributes to the significance of the Grade I registered burial ground.