Tomb of Andrew Ducrow
TOMB OF ANDREW DUCROW, HARROW ROAD W10
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1358179
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tomb of Andrew Ducrow
- Statutory Address:
- TOMB OF ANDREW DUCROW, HARROW ROAD W10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1358179
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tomb of Andrew Ducrow
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOMB OF ANDREW DUCROW, HARROW ROAD W10
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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:
- TOMB OF ANDREW DUCROW, 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 23358 82552
Details
249/80/53 HARROW ROAD W10 07-NOV-84 KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY TOMB OF ANDREW DUCROW
GV II*
Mausoleum of Andrew Ducrow, (died 1842): erected 1837 to Ducrow's wife and much embellished later for his own interment. Designed by George Danson and built by John Cusworth, mason. Rendered brick with Carrara marble and artificial stone enrichments within cast iron railings. Single cell with Egyptian reeded columns with lotus capitals at angles, supporting a cavetto cornice; doorcase (blocked) on north-east face surmounted by winged orb and eared pediment, and flanked by angle-set plinths supporting sphinxes. Battered sides sport reliefs of angels holding wreaths over marble inscription panels (broken on north-west face). Upper section consists of an urn decorated with horses' heads and garlands on a tapering pedestal, standing on a lower stage with reliefs of Pegasus; marble relief set into pediment on north-east end of a mourning woman with comic and tragic masks and inverted torch with Pegasus amid clouds; pediments along sides contain bee-hives. Free-standing broken column with wide-brimmed hat and gauntlets to north-west; garland-hung broken column to south-east. Cast-iron railings with motifs of wreaths, swags and inverted torches. History: Ducrow was an equestrian, a circus performer and proprietor of Astley's Ampitheatre. The mausoleum was erected for his wife at a cost of £3,000 and embellished subsequently for his own interment: the inscription describes it as ERECTED BY GENIUS FOR THE RECEPTION OF ITS OWN REMAINS. Among the outstanding funerary monuments of Victorian England. Survey of London Vol XXXVII P 339 and plate 31a.
Listing NGR: TQ2337982552
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 203836
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England in Survey of London, ,Vol. , (),
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London
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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