Colonnade west of entrance and chapels in Highgate (Western) Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery, Swain's Lane, Highgate, London, N6 6PJ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378874
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: Colonnade west of entrance and chapels in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
Statutory Address:: Highgate Cemetery, Swain's Lane, Highgate, London, N6 6PJ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378874
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: Colonnade west of entrance and chapels in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
Statutory Address 1:: Highgate Cemetery, Swain's Lane, Highgate, London, N6 6PJ

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:: Highgate Cemetery, Swain's Lane, Highgate, London, N6 6PJ

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 28515 86966

Details

TQ2886NE 798-1/13/1553

CAMDEN SWAIN'S LANE (west side) Colonnade west of entrance and chapels in Highgate (Western) Cemetery

(Formerly Listed as: HIGHGATE (WESTERN) CEMETERY, Colonnade West of Mortuary Chapels)

16/11/72 GV II Curved colonnade forming a courtyard with the main east entrance (qv) and buttressing the rising ground behind. c1838-39. By Stephen Geary. Yellow stock brick with stone dressings. Colonnade of 15 four-centred arches with chamfered arises. Parapet with stone gabled coping and string below. Central flight of steps leading up into cemetery.

INTERIOR with brick arched vaults carried on cast-iron beams and commemorative plaques.

HISTORICAL NOTE: originally used as a gathering place for funeral corteges before processing to the graveside.

Listing NGR: TQ2851586966

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Legacy System number:: 478234
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.