TOMB OF CAPTAIN GEORGE VANCOUVER IN THE CHURCHYARD OF ST PETER'S CHURCH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380182
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-2000
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF CAPTAIN GEORGE VANCOUVER IN THE CHURCHYARD OF ST PETER'S CHURCH
Statutory Address:: TOMB OF CAPTAIN GEORGE VANCOUVER IN THE CHURCHYARD OF ST PETER'S CHURCH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380182
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-2000
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF CAPTAIN GEORGE VANCOUVER IN THE CHURCHYARD OF ST PETER'S CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB OF CAPTAIN GEORGE VANCOUVER IN THE CHURCHYARD OF ST PETER'S CHURCH

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 CAPTAIN GEORGE VANCOUVER IN THE CHURCHYARD OF ST PETER'S CHURCH

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Richmond upon Thames (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 18179 73325

Details

TQ1873 PETERSHAM 22/25/10118 Tomb of Captain George Vancouver in the 23-MAR-00 churchyard of St Peter's Church

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Churchyard monument. Tomb to Captain George Vancouver, died 1798. Portland stone arched head and foot stone, set within replaced stone kerb. Headstone inscribed: Captain George Vancouver Died in the Year 1798 Aged 40. Foot stone bears inscription: Restored by the Native Sons of British Columbia Post No.2 (Canada) Maintained by the Late Major J.S. Matthews and the City of Vancouver B.C. (Canada). Listed for its historical associations with George Vancouver, maritime explorer. Wall monument in church, erected 1841 by Hudson's Bay Company provides fuller eulogy. (Catalogue No. 601).

St. Peter's Church, Petersham, London Borough of Richmond. Survey of Churchyard Monuments. Roger Bowdler, HART, English Heritage, August 1999.

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Legacy System number:: 479815
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.