Tomb of John Flaxman and Family in St Pancras Old Church Gardens
TOMB OF JOHN FLAXMAN AND FAMILY IN ST PANCRAS OLD CHURCH GARDENS, PANCRAS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322048
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Tomb of John Flaxman and Family in St Pancras Old Church Gardens
- Statutory Address:
- TOMB OF JOHN FLAXMAN AND FAMILY IN ST PANCRAS OLD CHURCH GARDENS, PANCRAS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322048
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Tomb of John Flaxman and Family in St Pancras Old Church Gardens
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOMB OF JOHN FLAXMAN AND FAMILY IN ST PANCRAS OLD CHURCH GARDENS, PANCRAS ROAD
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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 JOHN FLAXMAN AND FAMILY IN ST PANCRAS OLD CHURCH GARDENS, PANCRAS 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 29765 83514
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25/10/2016
TQ2983NE
798-1/78/1272
CAMDEN
PANCRAS ROAD
Tomb of John Flaxman and family in St Pancras Old Church Gardens
(Formerly listed as Tomb of Thomas Flaxman and family in St Pancras Old Church Gardens)
GV
II
Two slabs above vaults. c1840. Portland stone. Raised kerb with cast-iron railings, having enriched brackets to standards, surrounds stone vaults with battered stone slabs covering entrances. The inscription is weathered beyond legibility, but stated ’JOHN FLAXMAN RA, PS, WHOSE MORTAL LIFE WAS A CONSTANT PREPARATION FOR A BLESSED IMMORTALITY: HIS ANGELIC SPIRIT RETURNED TO THE DIVINE GIVER ON THE 7TH OF DECEMBER 1826 IN THE SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR OF HIS AGE’.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Flaxman, 1755-1826, was a renowned sculptor, specialising in funerary monuments. Influenced by the Italian Renaissance and C17 art, he had a successful career, which culminated in his appointment in 1810 as the first professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy. Despite his recognition he died in debt, and was buried at St Pancras, rather than St Pauls Cathedral, as he had hoped.
Representations of Flaxman were made for the façades of Burlington House in 1874, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in c1904; he is also commemorated on the nearby Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial
Listing NGR: TQ2976583514
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477709
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Knight, Charles, London, (1843), 200
Websites
Sarah Symmons, ‘Flaxman, John (1755–1826)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, September 2014, accessed 19 Oct 2016 from http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9679
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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