Freshfield Family Grave
FRESHFIELD FAMILY GRAVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391038
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Freshfield Family Grave
- Statutory Address:
- FRESHFIELD FAMILY GRAVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391038
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Freshfield Family Grave
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRESHFIELD FAMILY GRAVE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FRESHFIELD FAMILY GRAVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Woking (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 96142 56047
Details
71/0/10033 Freshfield Family Grave, Brookwood Cem 23-JUL-04 etery
GV II Memorial to Henry Douglas Freshfield (1877-1891). By Edward Onslow Ford, sculptor. 1892. Carara and Siena marble with bronze enrichment; wrought iron railings. DESCRIPTION: the memorial comprises a large enclosure, set within elaborate railings with a quatrefoil repeat. In the centre is a moulded sarcophagus in the C15 Florentine style, with urn and festoon decoration to the sides and inscription plaques on the top. Behind this, set between yew trees, is a tall pedimented aedicule. Its lower panel, pilaster capitals, frieze and tympanum are all enriched with bronze: the frieze is decorated with peacocks, butterflies and garlands, while the pediment sports a relief of Apolllo in his chariot. Set between fluted Corinthian pilasters of Siena marble is a bas-relief group, consisting of a pair of naked putti with inverted torches, emblems of death, on either side of a parade shield; above is a profile portrait of the young Henry Freshfield, who wears an Eton collar. HISTORY: also to Freshfield's parents, Augusta (d.1911) and Douglas (d.1934): he was an eminent barrister, mountaineer and travel writer. This is an outstanding late Victorian memorial by the eminent sculptor Edward Onslow Ford, a prominent practitioner of the New Sculpture. This memorial, one of the most lavish in the cemetery, is an outstanding example of late Victorian Renaissance Revival design and is of high sculptural quality.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492726
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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