Ironmongers' Graveyard, Geffrye Museum Gardens, Hoxton, London
Visited September 2017
In the north-west corner of the Geffrye Museum grounds, just as you go through the gate into the gardens, there are a small collection of gravestones relating to the Ironmongers' Company, who owned the almshouses which the museum is now housed in. Three date to the 1700s (one, of Mrs Cook, has a rather nice skull atop it), the others to the Victorian period and include the reburial of Sir Robert Geffrye, who founded the almshouses via money left in his will, and his wife. They were reburied after the church they were buried in was demolished in 1878.
The gardens are, at the present time (Januyary 2018) closed due to the redevelopment of the Geffrye Museum and will reopen in 2020. I don't know if the gravestones will be visible during that time, and they're not worth a special visit to see them, but once the museum is open you should definitely pause to look at them on your way into the splendid period gardens behind the museum.
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