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After a century of silence, this is in effect the fourth, the most lavishly illustrated of the sequence and, with extensive fresh research, it brings the history up to date because much in the cemetery has changed since the guide was originally published in 1983.
Paul Joyce's book has been described as the finest guide to a Victorian cemetery yet published and also contains an excellent history of Stoke Newington. Abney Park Cemetery has been described as 'the most highly ornamented cemetery in the neighbourhood of London'.
However, the real story of this place begins another two hundred years before and weaves its own intriguing strand of radical tradition; one moreover which helps to explain much about the cemetery's special character, its close identification with Isaac Watts and other nonconformist thinkers.
132 pages
Published: 1994 by Abney Park Cemetery Trust - Second Edition
ISBN: 0950942022
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 22cm x 22 cm x 1cm
After a century of silence, this is in effect the fourth, the most lavishly illustrated of the sequence and, with extensive fresh research, it brings the history up to date because much in the cemetery has changed since the guide was originally published in 1983.
Paul Joyce's book has been described as the finest guide to a Victorian cemetery yet published and also contains an excellent history of Stoke Newington. Abney Park Cemetery has been described as 'the most highly ornamented cemetery in the neighbourhood of London'.
However, the real story of this place begins another two hundred years before and weaves its own intriguing strand of radical tradition; one moreover which helps to explain much about the cemetery's special character, its close identification with Isaac Watts and other nonconformist thinkers.
132 pages
Published: 1994 by Abney Park Cemetery Trust - Second Edition
ISBN: 0950942022
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 22cm x 22 cm x 1cm