Beaufort Family Tomb, St John at Hackney Churchyard Gardens
BEAUFORT FAMILY TOMB, ST JOHN AT HACKNEY CHURCHYARD GARDENS, LOWER CLAPTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391333
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Beaufort Family Tomb, St John at Hackney Churchyard Gardens
- Statutory Address:
- BEAUFORT FAMILY TOMB, ST JOHN AT HACKNEY CHURCHYARD GARDENS, LOWER CLAPTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391333
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Beaufort Family Tomb, St John at Hackney Churchyard Gardens
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEAUFORT FAMILY TOMB, ST JOHN AT HACKNEY CHURCHYARD GARDENS, LOWER CLAPTON ROAD
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:
- BEAUFORT FAMILY TOMB, ST JOHN AT HACKNEY CHURCHYARD GARDENS, LOWER CLAPTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Hackney (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 35101 85160
Details
735/0/10167 LOWER CLAPTON ROAD Beaufort Family Tomb, St John at Hackn ey Churchyard Gardens
GV II Chest tomb. Portland stone. Chest has square angle pilasters with moulded capitals all on shallow moulded base, re-cut inscription panels and mid-C20 bronze plaque addressing Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort's importance. Ledger slab on top. A monument to the Beaufort family. Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1856) was Royal Naval Hydrographer from 1829-1855. His Beaufort wind force scale was adopted by the Royal Navy in 1838 and remains widely used as the empirical measure for the intensity of the wind.
A fine mid-C19 chest tomb to the Beaufort family, of historic interest for commemorating Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, who invented the Beaufort Scale for indicating wind force. It has group value with the Grade II* Church of St. John at Hackney and with other listed monuments in the Churchyard.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491957
- 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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