Monument to Maria Tustin, Kensal Green Cemetery
Tomb of Maria Tustin, Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, London, W10 4RA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246126
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to Maria Tustin, Kensal Green Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- Tomb of Maria Tustin, Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, London, W10 4RA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246126
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-2001
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Apr-2012
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to Maria Tustin, Kensal Green Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- Tomb of Maria Tustin, Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, London, W10 4RA
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:
- Tomb of Maria Tustin, Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, London, W10 4RA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Hammersmith and Fulham (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ2298682395
Summary
Funerary monument, dated 1914.
Reasons for Designation
The monument to Maria Tustin is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Artistic interest: a particularly good early piece of early-C20 figure sculpture from a monumental masons' yard;
* Group value: with other listed monuments within the Grade I registered Kensal Green Cemetery.
History
The Cemetery of All Souls at Kensal Green was the earliest of the large privately-run cemeteries established on the fringes of London to relieve pressure on overcrowded urban churchyards. Its founder George Frederick Carden intended it as an English counterpart to the great Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, which he had visited in 1821. In 1830, with the financial backing of the banker Sir John Dean Paul, Carden established the General Cemetery Company, and two years later an Act of Parliament was obtained to develop a 55-acre site at Kensal Green, then among open fields to the west of the metropolis. An architectural competition was held, but the winning entry – a Gothic scheme by HE Kendall – fell foul of Sir John's classicising tastes, and the surveyor John Griffith of Finsbury was eventually employed both to lay out the grounds and to design the Greek Revival chapels, entrance arch and catacombs, built between 1834 and 1837. A sequence of royal burials, beginning in 1843 with that of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, ensured the cemetery’s popularity. It is still administered by the General Cemetery Company, assisted since 1989 by the Friends of Kensal Green.
Details
Carrara marble statue of seated medieval woman on base of red granite with pressed metal angles decorated with torches. The leaded inscription consists of a lengthy encomium to Maria Tustin (d.1914).
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/05/2018
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487551
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: London 3 North West, (1991)
Curl, Stevens J, Kensal Green Cemetery: The Origins and Development of the General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green, London, 1824-2001, (2001)
Other
The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery, Paths of Glory or 'A Select Alphabetical and Biographical List, illustrated with Line Drawings of their Monuments, of Persons of Note Commemorated at The Cemetery of All Souls at Kensal Green', 1997,
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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