PEARSON MEMORIAL AT ALL SAINTS CEMETERY

PEARSON MEMORIAL AT ALL SAINTS CEMETERY, HAGSDELL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268881
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: PEARSON MEMORIAL AT ALL SAINTS CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: PEARSON MEMORIAL AT ALL SAINTS CEMETERY, HAGSDELL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268881
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: PEARSON MEMORIAL AT ALL SAINTS CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: PEARSON MEMORIAL AT ALL SAINTS CEMETERY, HAGSDELL 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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Location

Statutory Address:: PEARSON MEMORIAL AT ALL SAINTS CEMETERY, HAGSDELL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford
National Grid Reference:: TL 32864 12312

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212SE HAGSDELL ROAD 817-1/20/98 (North side) Pearson Memorial at All Saints Cemetery

GV II

Memorial. c1900. Raised shaft with sculptured pinnacled head, with octagonal plinth, 1 octagonal and 2 circular steps, raised York stone paved area, with granite curbs and raised granite circular surround. Chamfered column on flat cyma recta moulded plinth base, with incised lettered panels on each major face, and cavetto moulded re-entrant corners. Column has roll and carved capital with foliated corner volutes supporting canopy with gables, pinnacled head carved with poppyheads and 4 trefoil headed niches containing sculpted figures of St John, St George, the Virgin and Child, and Sarah, mother of Abraham. This memorial commemorates George Pearson JP of Brickendonbury, (d.1899) The east window in the Church of All Saints and St John, Queen's Road (qv) was installed in his memory. The monument also includes other family members including his wife Sarah (d.1911). The cemetery south of the churchyard was laid out late C19, and fronts Hagsdell Road as its southern boundary. The Pearson Memorial is the principal axial feature.

Listing NGR: TL3286412312

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Legacy System number:: 461344
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.