Mausoleum of Baron John Frederick Andrew Huth, Kensal Green Cemetery

Mausoleum of Baron John Huth, Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, London, W10 4RA

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Portland stone mausoleum by EM Lander the Elder, dated 1841. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389179
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: Mausoleum of Baron John Frederick Andrew Huth, Kensal Green Cemetery
Statutory Address:: Mausoleum of Baron John Huth, Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, London, W10 4RA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389179
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-2001
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-Apr-2012
List Entry Name:: Mausoleum of Baron John Frederick Andrew Huth, Kensal Green Cemetery
Statutory Address 1:: Mausoleum of Baron John Huth, Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, London, W10 4RA

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:: Mausoleum of Baron John Huth, Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, London, W10 4RA

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Kensington and Chelsea (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ2332782590

Summary

Portland stone mausoleum by EM Lander the Elder, dated 1841.

Reasons for Designation

The Mausoleum of Baron John Frederick Andrew Huth is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Artistic interest: a large and elaborate mausoleum, executed to a high standard of craftsmanship; * Group value: with other listed monuments within the Grade I registered Kensal Green Cemetery.

History

John Frederick Andrew Huth (1777-1864) was a merchant and merchant banker, nicknamed the 'Napoleon of the City' for his financial alacrity and personal presence. Born Johann Friederich Andreas Huth in Stade, Hanover, he was apprenticed to a Spanish merchant house at Hamburg, and afterwards worked for the company in Spain. Following the French invasion of 1809 Huth fled to London, where he established his own trading company, Frederick Huth & Co., supplying the British army in Spain and importing goods from Latin America to Europe. He and his family became naturalised British subjects in 1819. From 1829 Huth was financial adviser to Queen Maria Christina of Spain and financial agent for the Spanish government. His firm also played an important role in financing trade with North America, and by the time of his retirement in 1850 had become one of the largest merchant banking houses in London.

The Cemetery of All Souls at Kensal Green was the earliest of the large privately-run cemeteries established on the fringes of London to relieve pressure on overcrowded urban churchyards. Its founder George Frederick Carden intended it as an English counterpart to the great Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, which he had visited in 1821. In 1830, with the financial backing of the banker Sir John Dean Paul, Carden established the General Cemetery Company, and two years later an Act of Parliament was obtained to develop a 55-acre site at Kensal Green, then among open fields to the west of the metropolis. An architectural competition was held, but the winning entry – a Gothic scheme by HE Kendall – fell foul of Sir John's classicising tastes, and the surveyor John Griffith of Finsbury was eventually employed both to lay out the grounds and to design the Greek Revival chapels, entrance arch and catacombs, built between 1834 and 1837. A sequence of royal burials, beginning in 1843 with that of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, ensured the cemetery’s popularity. It is still administered by the General Cemetery Company, assisted since 1989 by the Friends of Kensal Green.

Details

A very large Portland stone mausoleum designed by Edward Manuel Lander the Elder. Standing on a tall base with torus moulding, each face has a central panel with an inscription or armorial achievement flanked by urns in relief. The frieze has Biblical inscriptions in Latin on each side (Job 1:21: 'Dominus dedit Dominus abstulit / sit nomen Domini benedictum' - 'the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away / blessed be the name of the Lord'); the roof is a stepped pyramid with pierced ventilation openings. The mausoleum is said to have cost £1,500 and has a capacity for 48 coffins within.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 487814
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Curl, Stevens J, Kensal Green Cemetery: The Origins and Development of the General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green, London, 1824-2001, (2001)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: London 3 North West, (1991)
Roscoe, I, Hardy, E, Sullivan, M G, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660-1851, ((2009))
Roscoe, I, Hardy, E, Sullivan, M G, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660-1851, ((2009))
Other
The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery, Paths of Glory or 'A Select Alphabetical and Biographical List, illustrated with Line Drawings of their Monuments, of Persons of Note Commemorated at The Cemetery of All Souls at Kensal Green', 1997,

Legal

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