TOMB OF RICHARD HONEY AND GEORGE FRANCIS AT ST PAUL'S CHURCHYARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382112
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-2000
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF RICHARD HONEY AND GEORGE FRANCIS AT ST PAUL'S CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address:: TOMB OF RICHARD HONEY AND GEORGE FRANCIS AT ST PAUL'S CHURCHYARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382112
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-2000
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF RICHARD HONEY AND GEORGE FRANCIS AT ST PAUL'S CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB OF RICHARD HONEY AND GEORGE FRANCIS AT ST PAUL'S CHURCHYARD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TOMB OF RICHARD HONEY AND GEORGE FRANCIS AT ST PAUL'S CHURCHYARD

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Hammersmith and Fulham (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 23325 78451

Details

TQ2378 333/6/10049 22-AUG-00

HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM Tomb of Richard Honey and George Francis at St. Paul's Churchyard

GV II

Headstone. C. 1821. Portland stone. Segmental top. Long, well-cut, inscription in memory of Richard Honey, carpenter, and George Francis, bricklayer, who were shot dead in 1821 during the funeral procession of Queen Caroline of Brunswick, the removal of whose body from Hammersmith to Germany prompted a major demonstration against King George IV. The headstone was erected by the mens' trades. The epitaph ends Victims like these have fallen in every age / Stretch of pow'r or party's cruel rage / Until even handed justice comes at last / To amend the future and avenge the past'.

A well-carved headstone of considerable historic interest.

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Legacy System number:: 482477
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.