BENT FAMILY MEMORIAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391045
Date first listed:: 23-Jul-2004
List Entry Name:: BENT FAMILY MEMORIAL
Statutory Address:: BENT FAMILY MEMORIAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391045
Date first listed:: 23-Jul-2004
List Entry Name:: BENT FAMILY MEMORIAL
Statutory Address 1:: BENT FAMILY MEMORIAL

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:: BENT FAMILY MEMORIAL

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 96023 56323

Details

71/0/10031 Bent Family Memorial, Brookwood Cemetery 23-JUL-04

GV II Funerary monument to William Bent (d.1859). Designer unknown. Bath stone with shafts of Serpentine. The monument comprises a cruciform shrine, and is in poor condition at the time of inspection (2003). The top section comprises an octagonal spirelet over an arcaded belfry-like middle section. Below this is the solid core of the monument, with pointed inscription panels to each face, set behind projecting arcaded, gabled canopies, carried on six colonnettes each: two of the four canopies have collapsed. The surviving canopies are richly carved, with flamboyant tracery set over paired arches, enriched with foil cusps and decorated capitals; the angles and spandrels of the canopies are decorated with angel figures to the corners, and foliate carving elsewhere. HISTORY: Bent resided at The Grove, Walton-on-Thames. His monument, now in a lamentable state, would have been one of the earliest in Brookwood Cemetery, which opened in 1854. Strongly influenced by Venetian Gothic architecture as championed by John Ruskin, the monument would have been one of the most flamboyant examples of the genre in any cemetery. It survived in relatively good condition until relatively recently: see the photo in John M. Clarke, 'An Introduction to Brookwood Cemetery' (2nd ed. 2002). It remains of special interest in spite of its condition.

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Legacy System number:: 492733
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.