THE NORTHERN COLONNADE

THE NORTHERN COLONNADE, HARROW ROAD W10

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1080629
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: THE NORTHERN COLONNADE
Statutory Address:: THE NORTHERN COLONNADE, HARROW ROAD W10

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Date:: 1999-08-20
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1080629
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: THE NORTHERN COLONNADE
Statutory Address 1:: THE NORTHERN COLONNADE, HARROW ROAD W10

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

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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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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:: THE NORTHERN COLONNADE, HARROW ROAD W10

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County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Kensington and Chelsea (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 23164 82722

Details

249/80/143 HARROW ROAD W10 07-NOV-84 KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY The Northern Colonnade (Formerly listed as: HARROW ROAD W10 KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY CATACOMBS OPPOSITE COLLEGE ROAD)

GV II

Cemetery colonnade and catacombs. 1832-33 by John Griffith, Surveyor to the General Cemetery Company. Portland stone, rendered brick walls, York stone floor. Single storey colonnade, 26 bays long, of unfluted baseless Doric columns: the endmost three bays at each end projecting and flanked with square piers. Low parapet survives in part, with some anthemion finials in situ. Rear wall formerly supported numerous marble memorial tablets and relief sculptures, most of which have been lost through vandalism. Catacombs underneath no longer accessible and partly blocked with rubble. History: one of the earliest structures in the cemetery, the colonnade was intended to house memorials to those buried in the catacombs below. These catacombs were the first of their kind in the country, and had a capacity of about 2,000 coffins.

Listing NGR: TQ2316582722

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Legacy System number:: 203825
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

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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.