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| English Heritage Reference: | 1389245 |
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| Property: | PARISH BOUNDARY MARKERS, KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY |
| Street: | HARROW ROAD , W10 |
| Date: | 13/06/2001 |
| Grade: | II |
| Grouped: | GV |
| Description: | Summary of Building: Twelve parish boundary markers, dated 1868. Reasons for Designation: The twelve parish boundary markers within Kensal Green Cemetery are listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: Historic interest: as material witnesses to the historic parish boundaries of this part of London. Group value: a rare survival of a group of 12 parish boundary markers all in their original positions. Group value: with other listed monuments and structures within the Grade I registered Kensal Green Cemetery. History: The Cemetery of All Souls at Kensal Green was the earliest of the large privately-run cemeteries established on the fringes of London to relieve pressure on overcrowded urban churchyards. Its founder George Frederick Carden intended it as an English counterpart to the great P�re-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, which he had visited in 1821. In 1830, with the financial backing of the banker Sir John Dean Paul, Carden established the General Cemetery Company, and two years later an Act of Parliament was obtained to develop a 55-acre site at Kensal Green, then among open fields to the west of the metropolis. An architectural competition was held, but the winning entry � a Gothic scheme by HE Kendall � fell foul of Sir John's classicising tastes, and the surveyor John Griffith of Finsbury was eventually employed both to lay out the grounds and to design the Greek Revival chapels, entrance arch and catacombs, which were built between 1834 and 1837. A sequence of royal burials, beginning in 1843 with that of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, ensured the cemetery�s popularity. It is still administered by the General Cemetery Company, assisted since 1989 by the Friends of Kensal Green. Details: Twelve yellow sandstone parish boundary markers, each roughly 0.5m high and round-headed, dated 1868, inscribed HP and KP on each face, for Hammersmith parish and Kensington parish. |
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