TOMB OF ARTHUR FRANKAU AND FAMILY IN HAMPSTEAD CEMETERY

TOMB OF ARTHUR FRANKAU AND FAMILY IN HAMPSTEAD CEMETERY, FORTUNE GREEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113036
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF ARTHUR FRANKAU AND FAMILY IN HAMPSTEAD CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: TOMB OF ARTHUR FRANKAU AND FAMILY IN HAMPSTEAD CEMETERY, FORTUNE GREEN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113036
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF ARTHUR FRANKAU AND FAMILY IN HAMPSTEAD CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB OF ARTHUR FRANKAU AND FAMILY IN HAMPSTEAD CEMETERY, FORTUNE GREEN ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TOMB OF ARTHUR FRANKAU AND FAMILY 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 25085 85694

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2585NW FORTUNE GREEN ROAD 798-1/24/495 Tomb of Arthur Frankau and family in Hampstead Cemetery

GV II

Altar and railed vault. c1904 to Arthur Frankau, poet. Polished granite and bronze. Granite altar with pedimented reredos having a silver mosaic evening star and gold mosaic sun setting behind an inscribed pale granite plaque with Greek key border at base. Vault in front of altar with curved inscribed granite lid having 4 large bronze ring handles and plinth, with carved ribboned laurel wreath, crowned by a bronze urn with anthemion relief enrichment and a snake coiled around the neck and handles ready to attack a winged orb. Vault surrounded by granite kerb with shaped dies and bronze railings with anthemion finials, and inscription from Tennyson. Arthur's son, Gilbert Frankau, novelist, also buried here.

Listing NGR: TQ2508585694

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Legacy System number:: 477363
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.