FOSCOLO MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH WEST OF WEST TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

FOSCOLO MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH WEST OF WEST TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH STREET W4

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1334318
Date first listed:: 25-Jul-1989
List Entry Name:: FOSCOLO MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH WEST OF WEST TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address:: FOSCOLO MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH WEST OF WEST TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH STREET W4

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1334318
Date first listed:: 25-Jul-1989
List Entry Name:: FOSCOLO MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH WEST OF WEST TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address 1:: FOSCOLO MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH WEST OF WEST TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH STREET W4

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:: FOSCOLO MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH WEST OF WEST TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH STREET W4

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Hounslow (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 21535 77760

Details

The following building shall be added:

CHURCH STREET W4 TQ 27 NW (west side) 1/253 Foscolo Memorial approx 25 m SW of West Tower of Church of St Nicholas

Chest tomb. 1861, probably to designs of the sculptor Baron Morochetti. Marble chest tomb, with hipped top, set on granite plinth and with metalwork details; railings and bronze wreath have been removed. Commemmorates Ugo Foscolo (1778 - 1827), great Italian patriot and the greatest early C19 Romantic Italian poet after Leopardi. In 1871 Foscolo's bones were disinterred by the Italian authorities and removed to the church of Santa Goce in Florence.

Listing NGR: TQ2153577760

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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.