Perimeter walls and railings including entrance gateway opposite Wakeman Road
Perimeter walls and railings including entrance gateway opposite Wakeman Road, Kensal Green Cemetery
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191000
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Perimeter walls and railings including entrance gateway opposite Wakeman Road
- Statutory Address:
- Perimeter walls and railings including entrance gateway opposite Wakeman Road, Kensal Green Cemetery
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191000
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Perimeter walls and railings including entrance gateway opposite Wakeman Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- Perimeter walls and railings including entrance gateway opposite Wakeman Road, Kensal Green Cemetery
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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:
- Perimeter walls and railings including entrance gateway opposite Wakeman Road, Kensal Green Cemetery
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
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Brent (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 23046 82712, TQ 23455 82459, TQ 23472 82639
Details
249/80/141
KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY
Perimeter walls and railings including entrance gateway opposite Wakeman Road
(Formerly listed as: HARROW ROAD W10, KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY, ENTRANCE GATEWAY OPPOSITE WAKEMAN ROAD)
15-APR-69
GV
II
Perimeter walls and railings. 1831-33 by John William Griffiths, Surveyor to the General Cemetery Company. Yellow-grey-plum stock brick wall, approximately 4-5 metres high, laid in alternative courses of headers and stretchers, with Portland stone coping along northern (Harrow Road) perimeter; projecting engaged piers capped with shallow pyramidal copings of Portland stone; outer face of wall with sloping Portland stone coping to lower level. Sequence of numbered Portland stone tablets placed at high level on outer wall.
Western entrance gates, of cast iron with spearhead rails, set between Portland stone piers in Square 183 of cemetery. Central entrance gates (disused) in Square 80 of cast iron, set between Portland stone piers: a pair of gates with spearhead rails set between two hollow piers of cast iron, each face of which terminates in an eared pediment; and in turn flanked by runs of spearhead rails set into granite kerbs.
Southern perimeter comprises cast iron railings, approximately 2 metres tall, alternating with stretches of brick wall approximately 3 metres tall. Railings, with spearhead finials, are supported with cast iron brackets of scrolled anthemion form set onto dwarf wall of brick with Portland stone coping; some stretches of railings missing at time of inspection. Two gateways along southern side (both disused), in Squares 20 and 82, each with hollow piers of cast iron with eared pediments to each face, some parts missing at time of inspection (1998).
Listing NGR: TQ2347282639
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 203823
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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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