Abney Park Chapel
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Abney Park Chapel, is a Grade II Listed chapel, designed by William Hosking and built by John Jay that is situated in Europe's first wholly nondenominational cemetery, Abney Park Cemetery, London.
The dramatically soaring Abney Park Chapel
Hosking and Collison's inclusion of a semi-circular classical arch in an otherwise Gothic building helped symbolise the nondenominational concept of the cemetery – that it was open to all.
Loddiges family
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The Loddiges family managed one of the most notable of the eighteenth and nineteenth century plant nurseries that traded in and introduced exotic plants, trees, shrubs, ferns, palms and orchids into E
Bamboo foliage with black stems (probably Phyllostachys nigra; a bamboo introduced into western cultivation by Loddiges Nursery)
The Common Mauve Rhododendron introduced into Britain by Conrad Loddiges
George Loddiges
Loddiges' family vault in St John's Church Gardens