BURIAL - Sarah Rippon, aged 93, at Bunhill Fields, on 12 Jan 1831. Address - Kent Rd (Vault opened). [City of London Burials 1754-1855]
BURIAL - Sarah Rippon, aged 93, at Bunhill Fields, on 12 Jan 1831. Address - Kent Rd (Vault opened). [City of London Burials 1754-1855]
Inscription
First side:
IN MEMORY OF
THE REVD JOHN RIPPON DD
WHO DIED 17TH DECEMBER 1836 AGED 86
ALSO OF SARAH RIPPON
HIS BELOVED WIFE
WHO DIED 1ST JANUARY 1831 AGED 93
Opposite side:
THE REVD JOHN RIPPON DD
FOR 63 YEARS PASTOR OF A BAPTIST CHURCH IN CARTER LANE, SOUTHWARK.
AS A MAN AND AS A MINISTER HE WAS ENDEARED TO ALL WHO INTIMATELY KNEW HIM.
HIS TALENTS PRE-EMINENTLY QUALIFIED HIM FOR THE USEFUL AND ACCEPTABLE DISCHARGE
OF HIS PUBLIC DUTIES.
AFFABLE IN MANNER, AFFECTIONATE IN DISPOSITION, ANIMATED IN THE PULPIT.
IN DOCTRINE UNCORRUPT, UNWAVERING IN PRINCIPLE: HIS PREACHING WAS ATTRACTIVE,
AND HIS LABOURS WERE ABUNDANT AND SUCCESSFUL.
AMONG HIS VARIED SERVICES IN THE CAUSE OF RELIGION, BY NONE WAS HE BETTER KNOWN,
OR WILL BE LONGER REMEMBERED IN THE CHURCHES AT HOME AND ABROAD,
THAN BY THE JUDICIOUS AND COMPREHENSIVE SELECTION OF HYMNS BEARING HIS NAME,
WHICH HAS AIDED THE DEVOTIONS AND INSPIRED THE PRAISES OF MYRIADS
OF HIS FELLOW CHRISTIANS
There is also a plaque at the base of the second side which repeats the inscription
Gravesite Details
If you stand on Bunhill Row and face the gates of the cemetery, this tombstone is to the right of the gates, on the first row behind the railings
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