TOMB OF WILLIAM CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, 5TH DUKE OF PORTLAND

TOMB OF WILLIAM CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, 5TH DUKE OF PORTLAND, HARROW ROAD W10

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389227
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF WILLIAM CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, 5TH DUKE OF PORTLAND
Statutory Address:: TOMB OF WILLIAM CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, 5TH DUKE OF PORTLAND, HARROW ROAD W10

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389227
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF WILLIAM CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, 5TH DUKE OF PORTLAND
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB OF WILLIAM CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, 5TH DUKE OF PORTLAND, HARROW ROAD W10

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 WILLIAM CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, 5TH DUKE OF PORTLAND, 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 23168 82514

Details

KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA

TQ2382NW HARROW ROAD W10 249/80/112 Kensal Green Cemetery 13-JUN-01 Tomb of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 5t h Duke of Portland

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Tomb of William Cavendish Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland, died 1879: by McDonald, Field & Co., masons of Aberdeen. Pink Peterhead granite slab set within very large plot bounded by kerbs and posts of grey granite, Two-stage slab with coped upper surfaces on a base of York stone placed in centre of a very large plot; boundary posts (formerly linked with bronze railings and chains) in form of cylinders with round caps. Several other family tombs are also located within the enclosure. This is the largest plot in the cemetery. History: Portland, known as the `Mole Duke', was a vastly wealthy landowner who devoted his later years to underground architecture.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 487862
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.