Monument to Martha Bianchi in Hampstead Cemetery
Monument to Martha Bianchi in Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113028
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to Martha Bianchi in Hampstead Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- Monument to Martha Bianchi in Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Road
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- Reference:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113028
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to Martha Bianchi in Hampstead Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- Monument to Martha Bianchi in Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Road
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.
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:
- Monument to Martha Bianchi in Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 24960 85768
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 August 2025 to update details in the description and to reformat text to current standards
TQ2485NE
798-1/23/491
CAMDEN
FORTUNE GREEN ROAD
Monument to Martha Bianchi in Hampstead Cemetery
GV
II
Walled monument with sculptured angel and relief panels to Martha Bianchi, died 1936. Stone. Large triangular plot with low stone wall having small rectangular piers flanking entrance at apex. Base of triangle formed by a stone gateway, with wrought-iron gate of rays emanating from a star with nimbus, surmounted by a large sculptured figure of the deceased depicted in Futurist style as an angel with outspread wings and arms held heavenward; angel flanked by two pillars and standing on a stepped base inscribed "Bianchi". Flanking the gateway to form walls, Two carved relief panels, that to the left depicting the couple, in contemporary clothes, sitting on a bench in paradise, she holding a baby; inscribed "Oh for the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that is still". Right hand panel depicts the deceased, in flowing robes, ascending heavenwards supported by two flanking wingless angels against a background of a cloud with emanating rays. A stone pavement fronts this arrangement. In front of the gateway a ledgerstone with plaque inscribed with a poem "To Mattie in Heaven".
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Bianchi monument was erected by an Italian chef to his wife, Martha, who died in childbirth.
Listing NGR: TQ2496085768
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477355
- 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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