Tomb of Commander Charles Spencer Ricketts, Royal Navy
TOMB OF COMMANDER CHARLES SPENCER RICKETTS, ROYAL NAVY, HARROW ROAD W10
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1080630
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tomb of Commander Charles Spencer Ricketts, Royal Navy
- Statutory Address:
- TOMB OF COMMANDER CHARLES SPENCER RICKETTS, ROYAL NAVY, HARROW ROAD W10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1080630
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tomb of Commander Charles Spencer Ricketts, Royal Navy
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOMB OF COMMANDER CHARLES SPENCER RICKETTS, ROYAL NAVY, HARROW ROAD W10
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TOMB OF COMMANDER CHARLES SPENCER RICKETTS, ROYAL NAVY, HARROW ROAD W10
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Kensington and Chelsea (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 23472 82535
Details
KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA
TQ 2382 NW HARROW ROAD W10 249/80/22 KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY
07-Nov-1984 Tomb of Commander Charles Spencer Ricketts, RN
GV II*
Tomb commemorating Commander Charles Spencer Ricketts, died 1867. Designed by William Burges. Portland stone canopied tomb with shafts of Peterhead granite, standing on colonnettes of Serpentine marble. Inner chest in form of a medieval bier, draped with a feigned heraldic awning with Union Jacks and enriched with mastic-filled inlay, standing on eight colonnettes. Outer canopy supported by eight ringed shafts with three trefoil-headed openings per side. Each gable is enriched with a relief of a woodewose, and terminates with a crocketed finial. Gargolye waterspouts. History: Ricketts was a naval officer who subsequently became a Buckinghamshire squire; tomb was erected by his daughter. See J. Mordaunt Crook, William Burges and the High Victorian Dream (1981), 227-8 and London Cemeteries Hugh Meller, plate 66.
Listing NGR: TQ2346782533
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 203829
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Meller, H, London Cemeteries, (1981)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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