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Tomb of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and Mary Jane Godwin, St Pancras Old Church Gardens

  • Address: Pancras Rd
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Structure

Tomb Of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin And Mary Jane Godwin, St Pancras Old Church Gardens is a Grade II English Listed Building in London. The monument lies to the north-east of the church, just north of Sir John Soane's grave. In 1851, the remains of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin were moved from St Pancras churchyard to the Shelley family tomb at the church of St Peter in Bournemouth. The remains of Mary Jane Godwin Clairmont remain in situ at St Pancras. - AsNotedIn


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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1797/09/15 Mary Wollstonecraft In Memoriam Mary W Godwin's remains are "deposited, on the fifteenth of September, at ten o'clock in the morning, in the church-yard of the parish church of St Pancras, Middlesex. A few of the persons she most esteemed, attended the ceremony..." - William Godwin
1800/00/00 Pedestal tomb of Mary Wollstonecraft, erected in the late C18, features a cornice top and base of Portland stone. The die (central part of the pedestal) will be carefully reinstated with new lettering in 1992.
1809/00/00 William Godwin Author, Publisher Godwin publishes "Essay on Sepulchres or, a Proposal for erecting some Memorial of the illustrious Dead in all Ages on the Spot where their Remains have been interred" where he discusses marking the graves of the morally great with a simple wooden cross.
1814/05/00 Percy Bysshe Shelley Groom Percy Shelley and Mary Godwin have a forbidden courtship which includes rendezvous at Mary Wollstonecraft's grave in St Pancras churchyard. Marriage of Mary Wollstonecraft and Percy Bysshe Shelley
1814/05/00 Mary Shelley Bride Percy Shelley courts Mary Godwin. The couple read the works of her parents while resting on Mary Wollstonecraft's grave at St Pancras. "Go to the tomb and read." - MWS A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (book) Marriage of Mary Wollstonecraft and Percy Bysshe Shelley
1836/04/10 William Godwin In Memoriam William Godwin is buried "as near my mother as possible. His tomb in St Pancras Church Yd was accordingly opened - at a depth of twelve feet her coffin was found uninjured - .... The funeral was plain and followed only by a few friends." MWS

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English National Heritage List: 1322050



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