TOMB OF JOHN CONSTABLE AND FAMILY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS IN ST JOHNS CHURCHYARD

TOMB OF JOHN CONSTABLE AND FAMILY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS IN ST JOHNS CHURCHYARD, CHURCH ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1067357
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF JOHN CONSTABLE AND FAMILY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS IN ST JOHNS CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address:: TOMB OF JOHN CONSTABLE AND FAMILY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS IN ST JOHNS CHURCHYARD, CHURCH ROW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1067357
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF JOHN CONSTABLE AND FAMILY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS IN ST JOHNS CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB OF JOHN CONSTABLE AND FAMILY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS IN ST JOHNS CHURCHYARD, CHURCH ROW

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: TOMB OF JOHN CONSTABLE AND FAMILY AND ATTACHED RAILINGS IN ST JOHNS CHURCHYARD, CHURCH ROW

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Camden (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 26239 85558

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2685NW CHURCH ROW 798-1/26/241 Tomb of John Constable & family & 14/05/74 attached railings in St John's Churchyard (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH ROW Grave of John Constable (St John's Churchyard))

GV II*

Chest tomb above brick vault. Dating from the death of Constable's wife in 1828, restored 1976. Marble. Rectangular plan on stepped base. Clasping pilasters with incised enrichment. Inscribed on north, east and west sides to the memory of John Constable, painter, his wife Maria Elizabeth and 7 children. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn finials surrounding the tomb. HISTORICAL NOTE: Constable took summer lodgings in Hampstead for his family from 1819 and from 1827 a permanent residence until his death in 1837. The high grade is a reflection of the importance of Constable to English painting, and the significance of Hampstead and its heath in his work. (Wade C: Buried in Hampstead: Camden History Society: 1986-).

Listing NGR: TQ2623985558

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Legacy System number:: 476967
Legacy System:: LBS

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Wade, C, Buried in Hampstead, (1986)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.