TOMB 1 FOOT TO SOUTH OF GROSVENOR TOMB IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MARY

TOMB 1 FOOT TO SOUTH OF GROSVENOR TOMB IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MARY, ST MARYS ROAD SW19

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1358061
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: TOMB 1 FOOT TO SOUTH OF GROSVENOR TOMB IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: TOMB 1 FOOT TO SOUTH OF GROSVENOR TOMB IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MARY, ST MARYS ROAD SW19

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1358061
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: TOMB 1 FOOT TO SOUTH OF GROSVENOR TOMB IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB 1 FOOT TO SOUTH OF GROSVENOR TOMB IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MARY, ST MARYS ROAD SW19

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 1 FOOT TO SOUTH OF GROSVENOR TOMB IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MARY, ST MARYS ROAD SW19

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Merton (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 24515 71447

Details

TQ 2471 6/128

LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON ST MARY'S ROAD, SW19 (east side) Tomb 1 foot to south of Grosvenor Tomb in Churchyard of St Mary

GV II

Table tomb. Circa mid C18. White marble. Rounded ends with carved crests. Panelled sides the centre of each slightly set forward with inscribed panels. Mounted slab top, rising in centre.

The plaques on either side of the tomb read: "Thomas Walker Esquire / died XXII October / MDCCXLVIII / in the eighty fourth year of his age" (North side, now missing) and "On the accession of his late Majesty K. Geo. 1st he was put in Commission of the Customs, in which he continued until the year 1732, when he was appointed Surveyor General of his Majesty's Land Revenue, which office he held to his death, and discharged both these trusts with integrity. He was an intimate friend of Sir Robert Walpole, and his portrait was introduced in picture at Strawberry Hill." (South side).

Listing NGR: TQ2451571447

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Legacy System number:: 205150
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.