Bunhill Fields
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Bunhill Fields is a former burial ground in central London, in the London Borough of Islington, just north of the City of London. What remains is about 1.6 hectares in extent and the bulk of the site is a public garden maintained by the City of London Corporation.
Monuments in Bunhill Fields
![Monument of Dame Mary Page (died 1729). The inscription reads in part: "In 67 months she was tap'd [tapped] 66 times, Had taken away 240 gallons of wa](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Mary_Page_monument_2.JPG/600px-Mary_Page_monument_2.JPG)
Monument of Dame Mary Page (died 1729). The inscription reads in part: "In 67 months she was tap'd [tapped] 66 times, Had taken away 240 gallons of water without ever repining at her case or ever fearing the operation."
Monument to Theophilus Gale, South Enclosure.
Monuments in Bunhill Fields
John Bunyan
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John Bunyan was an English writer and Puritan preacher. He is best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, which also became an influential literary model. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons.
John Bunyan
Bunyan's High Street cottage in Elstow
Bunyan in prison, as imagined in 1881
Bunyan's effigy on his grave in Bunhill Fields