Recent monument restoration projects

As part of Abney Park Trust’s charitable objectives to conserve and restore Abney Park Cemetery as an area of architectural and ecological significance, we have embarked on a programme of monument restoration.

Read the stories below to find out what we have been recently working on.


Please continue to support our monument restoration programme


Abney Park’s Listed Monuments

Samuel Robinson 1751 - 1833

An architect and surveyor, and founder of the Retreat Almshouses for the widows of dissenting ministers in Hackney. A white stone chest built in late gothic style, with detailed tracery patterning designed by Robinson.

John Swan 1787 - 1869

An engineer and inventor. The originator of the steamship's screw propellor (1824) and the self acting chain messenger (1831). He never patented his inventions, but allowed his superiors to publish them under their names. A draped and wreathed urn standing on a white stone pedestal.