Huguenot Burial Site
Encyclopedia
The Huguenot Burial Site is a former cemetery for Huguenot
s in Wandsworth (London).
. It is located next to St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church. The railings surrounding this little park were replaced in 2003.
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Huguenot
The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...
s in Wandsworth (London).
Location
The burial site is located between East Hill and Huguenot Place in the London Borough of WandsworthLondon Borough of Wandsworth
The London Borough of Wandsworth is a London borough in southwest London, England, and forms part of Inner London.-History:The borough was formed in 1965 from the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and much of the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth, but...
. It is located next to St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church. The railings surrounding this little park were replaced in 2003.
History
The burial site was opened in 1687 and closed in 1854. It was mainly used for Huguenot refugees who had fled to Wandsworth. There are a few monuments left. On the north side of the cemetery is a pedimented memorial with an explanation of the burial site, although it has become practically illegible. In 1911 a memorial was erected to the memory of the Wandsworth Huguenots (Photograph of the memorial on the Geograph website).Nickname
The Huguenot burial ground is als known as Mount Nod Cemetery, not to be confused with the Mount Nod sub-district of Eastern GreenEastern Green
Eastern Green is a mainly residential suburb in the far west of Coventry, England, and was formerly a village in Warwickshire. Its most western area is Upper Eastern Green and the eastern area is Lower Eastern Green., though residents generally do not distinguish between the two.The sub-district of...
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