TOMB OF MARTHE GOSCOMBE JOHN AND SIR WILLIAM GOSCOMBE JOHN IN HAMPSTEAD CEMETERY

TOMB OF MARTHE GOSCOMBE JOHN AND SIR WILLIAM GOSCOMBE JOHN IN HAMPSTEAD CEMETERY, FORTUNE GREEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1322159
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF MARTHE GOSCOMBE JOHN AND SIR WILLIAM GOSCOMBE JOHN IN HAMPSTEAD CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: TOMB OF MARTHE GOSCOMBE JOHN AND SIR WILLIAM GOSCOMBE JOHN IN HAMPSTEAD CEMETERY, FORTUNE GREEN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1322159
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF MARTHE GOSCOMBE JOHN AND SIR WILLIAM GOSCOMBE JOHN IN HAMPSTEAD CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB OF MARTHE GOSCOMBE JOHN AND SIR WILLIAM GOSCOMBE JOHN 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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Location

Statutory Address:: TOMB OF MARTHE GOSCOMBE JOHN AND SIR WILLIAM GOSCOMBE JOHN 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 24873 85604

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2485NE FORTUNE GREEN ROAD 798-1/23/496 Tomb of Marthe Goscombe John & Sir William Goscombe John in Hampstead Cemetery

GV II*

Headstone and figure. c1923. By Sir William Goscombe John. Bronze figure and stone headstone. Rectangular stone kerbed plot with crazy paved infill. Inscribed steps surmounted by a sculptured bronze female figure, in flowing robes with head covered by an enveloping shawl, moving away from the spectator, her head turned for a final backward glance with fingers of right arm raised to the lips. Forming a backdrop, a square-headed headstone with battered sides and carved segmental shaped cornice with anthemion motifs. HISTORICAL NOTE: Sir William Goscombe John was a Welsh sculptor who worked in the 1890s under Rodin in Paris.

Listing NGR: TQ2487385604

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Legacy System number:: 477376
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.