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Latitude: 51.438 / 51°26'16"N
Longitude: -0.0485 / 0°2'54"W
OS Eastings: 535736
OS Northings: 172805
OS Grid: TQ357728
Mapcode National: GBR JG.4G0
Mapcode Global: VHGRF.33QZ
Plus Code: 9C3XCXQ2+5H
Entry Name: The George Baxter Memorial
Listing Date: 24 July 2002
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1061399
English Heritage Legacy ID: 489638
ID on this website: 101061399
Location: Forest Hill, Lewisham, London, SE23
County: London
District: Lewisham
Electoral Ward/Division: Perry Vale
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Lewisham
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Forest Hill, St George With Lower Sydenham, St Michael and All Angels
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
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779/0/10128 SOUTH ROAD
24-JUL-02 Forest Hill
The George Baxter Memorial
II
Churchyard monument. Circa 1867. Commemorates George Baxter (1804 -1867), a printer who invented the first method of producing colour prints in quantity. Polished granite tapering obelisk about 15 feet high on deep tapering plinth with inscription on two granite steps , the western side with attached stone wreath, set on a stone step with square stone pavement, enclosed by cast iron railings with partly twisted horizontal railings with moulded mid and corner posts with acorn finials. Inscription to east reads "In fond remembrance of / my dear husband/ George Baxter who was gifted as an artist/ with the highest qualities of artistic taste/ and was the sole inventor and patentee/ of Oil Color Picture Printing." A religious poem and reference to Luke XI v 13 follows. Further inscriptions on other faces of the plinth commemorate his wife Mary (d. 1871), his daughter Charlotte Warner Baxter (d. 1907) and his son William Oliver (d. 1875).
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