Tomb of Howe Browne, Second Marquess of Sligo, Kensal Green Cemetery

Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road W10

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389211
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: Tomb of Howe Browne, Second Marquess of Sligo, Kensal Green Cemetery
Statutory Address:: Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road W10

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389211
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: Tomb of Howe Browne, Second Marquess of Sligo, Kensal Green Cemetery
Statutory Address 1:: Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road W10

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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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:: Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road W10

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:: TQ 23262 82569

Details

TQ2382NW 249/80/93

KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA HARROW ROAD W10 Kensal Green Cemetery, Tomb of Howe Browne, Second Marquess of Sligo

13-JUN-01

II Tomb of Howe Brown, Second Marquess of Sligo, died 1845. Marble sarcophagus on base. Rectangular chest upon two supports, above a two-stepped base; sides have sunken inscription panel flanked by slender amphorae in relief; shallow pyramidal cover.

History: Sligo was an associate of the Prince Regent and Byron's; the excavator of the Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae (now in the British Museum); and sometime Governor of Jamaica responsible for emancipating slaves. His tomb reflects his taste for classical antiquities.

Sources: A.H. Hakewill, Modern Tombs, Gleaned from the Public Cemeteries of London (1851), pl.s 6-7.

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Legacy System number:: 487846
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.