Mrs Wesley’s Memorial Subscriptions
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1850-1900 / Book / Cardboard / Commemorative / Document / Paper / The Wesley Family / Wesley's Chapel
Cardboard and paper, printed; ink
Late 1860s
Scrapbook entitled 'Mrs Wesley's Memorial Subscriptions'. The booklet contains newspaper cuttings and a running total detailing all the subscriptions from the public for erecting a memorial to Susanna Wesley (1669-1742).
Susanna was Revd. John Wesley's mother. She was buried in 1742 opposite Wesley's Chapel, then a 'tenter' (or cloth-drying) ground, in Bunhill Fields burial ground. The memorial was erected in the grounds of Wesley's Chapel in 1870.
See also the photograph of the memorial in the Online Collection, 2008/11371/1.
Late 1860s
Scrapbook entitled 'Mrs Wesley's Memorial Subscriptions'. The booklet contains newspaper cuttings and a running total detailing all the subscriptions from the public for erecting a memorial to Susanna Wesley (1669-1742).
Susanna was Revd. John Wesley's mother. She was buried in 1742 opposite Wesley's Chapel, then a 'tenter' (or cloth-drying) ground, in Bunhill Fields burial ground. The memorial was erected in the grounds of Wesley's Chapel in 1870.
See also the photograph of the memorial in the Online Collection, 2008/11371/1.
