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Latitude: 51.557 / 51°33'25"N
Longitude: -0.1989 / 0°11'55"W
OS Eastings: 524960
OS Northings: 185768
OS Grid: TQ249857
Mapcode National: GBR C5.NJH
Mapcode Global: VHGQR.H4Q8
Plus Code: 9C3XHR42+QF
Entry Name: Monument to Martha Bianchi in Hampstead Cemetery
Listing Date: 11 January 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1113028
English Heritage Legacy ID: 477355
ID on this website: 101113028
Location: Hampstead Cemetery, West Hampstead, Camden, London, NW2
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: Fortune Green
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Luke Hampstead
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Monument
CAMDEN
TQ2485NE FORTUNE GREEN ROAD
798-1/23/491 Monument to Martha Bianchi in
Hampstead Cemetery
GV II
Walled monument with sculptured angel and relief panels to
Martha Bianchi, died 1936. Stone. Large triangular plot with
low stone wall having small rectangular piers flanking
entrance at apex. Base of triangle formed by a stone gateway,
with wrought-iron gate of rays emanating from a star with
nimbus, surmounted by a large sculptured figure of the
deceased depicted in Futurist style as an angel with outspread
wings and arms held heavenward; angel flanked by 2 pillars and
standing on a stepped base inscribed "Bianchi". Flanking the
gateway to form walls, 2 carved relief panels, that to the
left depicting the couple, in contemporary clothes, sitting on
a bench in paradise, she holding a baby; inscribed "Oh for the
touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that is
still". Right hand panel depicts the deceased, in flowing
robes, ascending heavenwards supported by 2 flanking wingless
angels against a background of a cloud with emanating rays. A
stone pavement fronts this arrangement. In front of the
gateway a ledgerstone with plaque inscribed with a poem "To
Mattie in Heaven".
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Bianchi monument was erected by an
Italian chef to his opera singer wife, Martha, who died in
childbirth.
Listing NGR: TQ2496085768
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