TOMB OF ESTHER OFFTY IN ST GEORGE'S GARDENS

TOMB OF ESTHER OFFTY IN ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, HANDEL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378732
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF ESTHER OFFTY IN ST GEORGE'S GARDENS
Statutory Address:: TOMB OF ESTHER OFFTY IN ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, HANDEL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378732
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF ESTHER OFFTY IN ST GEORGE'S GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB OF ESTHER OFFTY IN ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, HANDEL STREET

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 ESTHER OFFTY IN ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, HANDEL STREET

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:: TQ3046582471

Details

TQ3082SW 798-1/90/1873

CAMDEN HANDEL STREET Tomb of Esther Offty in St George's Gardens (Formerly Listed as: HANDEL STREET Walls, lodge, cottage and monuments in St George's Gardens)

14/05/74

GV II

Monument to Esther Offty. d.1770. Portland stone chest tomb with fielded panels, ledger slab and angle balusters, standing on tall red brick base with stone quoins and plinth. Esther Offty, of Great Russell Street, died aged nine. Located in the centre of the former St George's Bloomsbury burial ground, and one of the most prominent of the surviving tombs there.

Listing NGR: TQ3046582471

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Legacy System number:: 478066
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.