Tombstone to Sir Percy Harris, Bart, St Nicholas Churchyard
TOMBSTONE TO SIR PERCY HARRIS, BART, ST NICHOLAS CHURCHYARD, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1096142
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Tombstone to Sir Percy Harris, Bart, St Nicholas Churchyard
- Statutory Address:
- TOMBSTONE TO SIR PERCY HARRIS, BART, ST NICHOLAS CHURCHYARD, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1096142
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Tombstone to Sir Percy Harris, Bart, St Nicholas Churchyard
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOMBSTONE TO SIR PERCY HARRIS, BART, ST NICHOLAS CHURCHYARD, CHURCH STREET
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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.
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:
- TOMBSTONE TO SIR PERCY HARRIS, BART, ST NICHOLAS CHURCHYARD, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Hounslow (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 21405 77697
Details
787/0/10145 CHURCH STREET
28-FEB-03 Chiswick
Tombstone to Sir Percy Harris, Bart, S
t Nicholas Churchyard
GV II*
Monument to Sir Percy Harris, Bt., MP (d.1952). Funerary relief. Portland stone. By Bainbridge Copnall (d.1973). A tall rectangular relief on a stepped base bearing an inscription. The relief depicts the resurrection of the dead, and shows rising naked figures (some with 1920s bobbed hair) amid crosses in a cemetery; above hovers a winged angel. The reverse is plain.
HISTORY: this was a youthful work by the prominent 20th century sculptor Bainbridge Copnall, and was carved in the late 1920s. It was acquired by Harris for display in his garden at Morton House, Chiswick Mall, and subsequently transferred to his grave. Symbolically it is indebted to the work of Stanley Spencer, and is of great interest as one of the very last funerary depictions of the Christian theme of the rising of the dead at the Last Judgment. Stylistically it is indebted to the Vorticist Wyndham Lewis. Harris was a prominent Liberal politician, sitting as an MP and serving as deputy leader of the London County Council. His book London and its Government (1913) was the standard work on metropolitan municipal government. Copnall served as President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors 1961-66 and is best known for his decorative carving in the Royal Institute of British Architects' building, opened in 1934. This is a monument of very high quality, and of historic, sculptural and symbolic interest.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490108
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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