Plaque

Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road - plaque 04

Erection date: 1883

Inscription

This stone was laid by Miss Edith Nightingale.

Site: Wesleyan Schools - Leswin Road (12 memorials)

N16, Leswin Road, 41

Above the entrance at the left: "1883". above the two large windows: "Wesleyan Schools". Now, 2021, residential.

The plaques, which we have numbered left to right, run along the wall below all the windows. Cement has been liberally spread around and everything painted white so the plaques are of variable legibility. Our intuition has been called on to 'read' some of the names.

This building backs onto the Methodist Church in Stoke Newington High Street and old maps show that it has been here since at least 1895.

The Hackney Gazette gives the history of the church's four incarnations on the site: 1816, 1851 (HG has images, bombed in WW2), 1957 (image here), 2016. HG mentions that some new housing on the site funded the new church. Google Maps satellite view shows a heavily-developed site. The residential accommodation includes the conversion of the Sunday School and we'd guess that this all happened for the 2016 church.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road - plaque 04

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Edith Nightingale

Associated with the Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road, 1883. Because her first na...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road - plaque 04

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Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road - plaque 01

Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road - plaque 01

This stone was laid on behalf of this Sunday School by ?. R. Braimbridge Esq.

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Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road - plaque 02

Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road - plaque 02

This stone was laid on behalf of the stewards by J. Poole Esq.

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Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road - plaque 03

Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road - plaque 03

This stone was laid on behalf of the choir by E. A. Jay, Esq.

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Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road - plaque 05

Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road - plaque 05

This plaque is larger than the others and probably gives the names of the dig...

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Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road - plaque 06

Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road - plaque 06

We are not confident in the transcription of the first name and initial.

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