TOMB OF SIR WALTER BESANT IN ST JOHNS CHURCHYARD EXTENSION

TOMB OF SIR WALTER BESANT IN ST JOHNS CHURCHYARD EXTENSION, CHURCH ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1356755
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF SIR WALTER BESANT IN ST JOHNS CHURCHYARD EXTENSION
Statutory Address:: TOMB OF SIR WALTER BESANT IN ST JOHNS CHURCHYARD EXTENSION, CHURCH ROW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1356755
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF SIR WALTER BESANT IN ST JOHNS CHURCHYARD EXTENSION
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB OF SIR WALTER BESANT IN ST JOHNS CHURCHYARD EXTENSION, CHURCH ROW

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TOMB OF SIR WALTER BESANT IN ST JOHNS CHURCHYARD EXTENSION, CHURCH ROW

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 26232 85717

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2685NW CHURCH ROW 798-1/26/252 Tomb of Sir Walter Besant in St 14/05/74 John's Churchyard Extension (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH ROW Grave of Sir Walter Besant (St John's Graveyard))

GV II

Headstone with grave slab. c1901. Granite headstone, stone slab. Pointed arch headstone inscribed to the memory of Walter Besant and his wife and quotation from Leigh Hunt, "Write as one who loves his fellow-men"; plain grave slab with battered kerbing. HISTORICAL NOTE: Sir Walter Besant was a novelist, antiquarian, social reformer and long resident in Hampstead. His socially-conscious novels prompted the establishment of the People's Palace in Mile End; he also wrote a 10 volume survey of London.

Listing NGR: TQ2623285717

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Legacy System number:: 476984
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.