TOMB OF GEORGE BROAD APPROXIMATELY 160 METRES EAST OF WEST GATE, HAMMERSMITH CEMETERY

TOMB OF GEORGE BROAD APPROXIMATELY 160 METRES EAST OF WEST GATE, HAMMERSMITH CEMETERY, MARGRAVINE ROAD W6

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1072615
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1997
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF GEORGE BROAD APPROXIMATELY 160 METRES EAST OF WEST GATE, HAMMERSMITH CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: TOMB OF GEORGE BROAD APPROXIMATELY 160 METRES EAST OF WEST GATE, HAMMERSMITH CEMETERY, MARGRAVINE ROAD W6

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1072615
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1997
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF GEORGE BROAD APPROXIMATELY 160 METRES EAST OF WEST GATE, HAMMERSMITH CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB OF GEORGE BROAD APPROXIMATELY 160 METRES EAST OF WEST GATE, HAMMERSMITH CEMETERY, MARGRAVINE ROAD W6

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TOMB OF GEORGE BROAD APPROXIMATELY 160 METRES EAST OF WEST GATE, HAMMERSMITH CEMETERY, MARGRAVINE ROAD W6

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Hammersmith and Fulham (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 23916 78136

Details

TQ 2378 MARGRAVINE ROAD, W6 (North East side, Off) 333/6/10037 Tomb of George Broad, approx. 160 metres east of West Gate, Hammersmith Cemetery

GV II

Tomb monument. c1895. Cast bronze with a sandstone base. Low, shaped base surmounted by a Free Baroque panel with richly scrolled top and which is fronted by a relief of an angel with a sword and holding an inscribed Renaissance shield. A lower panel bears a relief of 2 putti with the inscription "Requiescat in pace". The monument is signed A Fabbrucci on the lower left corner. HISTORY: George Broad ran a foundry in Hammersmith and was responsible for casting the most celebrated of all late Victorian public monuments, Eros, by Alfred Gilbert for whom Broad also carried out other casting. Aristide Fabbrucci was a London-based sculptor and modeller, probably the son of Florentine sculptor Luigi Fabbrucci. He was best known for his figure of Commerce, designed for the Glasgow Pavilion of Plastic Arts in 1898.

Listing NGR: TQ2391678136

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Legacy System number:: 468848
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.