Bunhill Fields

Bunhill Fields, at 38 City Road, was the Burying Ground for Dissenters. Here stand the tombs of key players in Baptist history: John Rippon, Joseph Ivimey, John Gill, and John Bunyan. Important Baptists whose tombstones here have been destroyed over time include Henry Jessey, Hanserd Knollys, William Kiffin, and Vavasor Powell. See also the tombstones of notable non-Baptists, such as Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, Isaac Watts, “Father of English Hymnody,” and Susanna Wesley, mother of nineteen children, of whom the most eminent were John and Charles. Just across the road from Bunhill Fields is the Wesley House.

copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices

Learn more about William Kiffin in this interview with Dr. David Saxon on VCY.tv

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