Susanna Wesley Memorial

Susanna Wesley Memorial
Susanna Wesley Memorial
2008/11371/1

1950-2000 / B/W / Paper / Photograph / The Wesley Family / Wesley's Chapel
Photograph
c.1970

A black and white photograph of the commemorative inscription on Susanna Wesley's memorial, in the grounds of Wesley's Chapel.

Susanna Wesley (1669-1742) 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 by public subscription in 1870.