Dr Johnson's Monument

Classical commemorative monument set within a railed enclosure some 2.2m square. The monument is of sandstone (with some evidence of formerly having been painted to imitate marble), and consists of a tall Grecian urn set on a square pedestal, reaching an overall height of approximately 3m. The pedestal has inset white marble plaques on 2 sides, one inscribed "Samuel Johnson LLD/obiit XIII die Decembris/Anno domini MDCCLXXXIV/astatis LXXV", and the other "This spot was often dignified by the presence of Samuel Johnson LLD, whose moral writings exactly conformable to the precepts of Christianity give ardour to virtue and confidence to truth."