Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial

We came here to see the Hardy Tree and this Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial catch our eyes.

The Burdett Coutts Memorial Sundial is a structure built in Old St Pancras churchyard in 1877–79, at the behest of Baroness Burdett-Coutts. The former churchyard included the burial ground for St Giles-in-the-Fields, where many Catholics and French émigrés were buried. The graveyard closed to burials in 1850, but some graves were disturbed by a cutting of the Midland Railway in 1865 as part of the works to construct its terminus at St Pancras railway station. The churchyard was acquired by the parish authorities in 1875 and reopened as a public park in June 1877. The high Victorian Gothic memorial was built from 1877 and unveiled in 1879. The obelisk acts as a memorial to people buried near the church whose graves were disturbed; the names of over 70 of them are listed on the memorial, including the Chevalier d'Éon, Sir John Soane, John Flaxman, Sir John Gurney, and James Leoni.

The monument was designed by George Highton of Brixton.

(Translated by Google) A wonderful place of rest in the midst of a crowded and hectic city.

Here you can relax very well, relieve tension, find serenity and think and meditate about creation and the creator. Every single tree in this garden is worth looking at and noticing. Thank God!

It's hard to believe that just a few hundred meters away, the traffic is raging and in two huge train stations the restless, appointment-controlled operation - even on broad daylight Sunday! - is processed.

The upper part of the text facing the entrance is from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, recorded in Matthew 5 according to the Old English King James Version. Worth reading carefully and thinking about the actual content. Who will one day inherit EARTH - this planet of ours?

(Original)
Ein herrlicher Ort der Ruhe inmitten einer vollen und hektischen Stadt.

Hier lässt es sich sehr gut erholen, Spannungen abbauen, Gelassenheit wiederfinden und über die Schöpfung und den Schöpfer nachdenken und meditieren. Jeder einzelne Baum in diesem Garten ist betrachtens- und beachtenswert. Gott sei Dank!

Kaum zu glauben, dass wenige hundert Meter entfernt, der Verkehr tobt und in zwei gewaltigen Bahnhöfen der rastlose, von Terminen gesteuerte Betrieb - auch am helllichten Sonntag ! - abgewickelt wird.

Der obere Teil des dem Eingang zugewandten Textes ist aus der Bergpredigt Jesu, aufgeschrieben in Matthäus 5 nach der King James Version in altem Englisch. Wert aufmerksam gelesen zu werden und über den tatsächlichen Inhalt nachzudenken. Wer wird die ERDE - diesen unseren Planeten - einmal erben?