Tomb of Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddall in Highgate (Western) Cemetery

Highgate (Western) Cemetery, Swain's Lane, Highgate, London, N6 6PJ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378931
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: Tomb of Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddall in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
Statutory Address:: Highgate (Western) Cemetery, Swain's Lane, Highgate, London, N6 6PJ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378931
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: Tomb of Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddall in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
Statutory Address 1:: Highgate (Western) Cemetery, Swain's Lane, Highgate, London, N6 6PJ

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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 (Western) Cemetery, Swain's Lane, Highgate, London, N6 6PJ

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County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Camden (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 28379 86960

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/03/2019

TQ2886NW 798-1/12/1576

CAMDEN SWAIN'S LANE (west side) Tomb of Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddall in Highgate (Western) Cemetery

(Formerly listed as Tomb of Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddall, SWAIN'S LANE, previously listed as: HIGHGATE (WESTERN) CEMETERY Graves of Christina Rossetti & Elizabeth Siddall)

14/05/74 GV II Headstone. Late C19. Marble. Inscribed to the memory of Christina Rossetti, poet, theological writer and sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite painter, and Elizabeth Siddall, the latter's wife - whom he buried with a manuscript of his earlier poems.

HISTORICAL NOTE: in 1869, with growing ambitions as a poet and regretting the burial of his only complete earlier volume, Rossetti had them exhumed secretly at dead of night; the volume, entitled "Poems" was published in 1870.

Listing NGR: TQ2837986960

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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.