MEMORIAL TO SIR ROWLAND HILL IN HIGHGATE (WESTERN) CEMETERY

MEMORIAL TO SIR ROWLAND HILL IN HIGHGATE (WESTERN) CEMETERY, SWAINS LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378889
Date first listed:: 13-May-1974
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL TO SIR ROWLAND HILL IN HIGHGATE (WESTERN) CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: MEMORIAL TO SIR ROWLAND HILL IN HIGHGATE (WESTERN) CEMETERY, SWAINS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378889
Date first listed:: 13-May-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL TO SIR ROWLAND HILL IN HIGHGATE (WESTERN) CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: MEMORIAL TO SIR ROWLAND HILL IN HIGHGATE (WESTERN) CEMETERY, SWAINS LANE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MEMORIAL TO SIR ROWLAND HILL IN HIGHGATE (WESTERN) CEMETERY, SWAINS LANE

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 28412 87143

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2887SW SWAIN'S LANE 798-1/5/1570 (West side) 14/05/74 Memorial to Sir Rowland Hill in Highgate (Western) Cemetery (Formerly Listed as: HIGHGATE (WESTERN) CEMETERY Grave of Sir Rowland Hill)

GV II

Plinth with bollards. c1879. Marble. Tall rectangular inscribed plinth surmounted by obelisk bollards originally for chain surround (this removed) and inscribed stepped blocks. HISTORICAL NOTE: Sir Rowland Hill founded the penny post. This is a memorial only; Sir Rowland Hill is buried in Westminster Abbey.

Listing NGR: TQ2841287143

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 478250
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.