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Latitude: 51.5563 / 51°33'22"N
Longitude: -0.1971 / 0°11'49"W
OS Eastings: 525085
OS Northings: 185694
OS Grid: TQ250856
Mapcode National: GBR C5.NYW
Mapcode Global: VHGQR.J4NS
Plus Code: 9C3XHR43+G5
Entry Name: Tomb of Arthur Frankau and Family in Hampstead Cemetery
Listing Date: 11 January 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1113036
English Heritage Legacy ID: 477363
ID on this website: 101113036
Location: Hampstead Cemetery, West Hampstead, Camden, London, NW6
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: Tomb
CAMDEN
TQ2585NW FORTUNE GREEN ROAD
798-1/24/495 Tomb of Arthur Frankau and family in
Hampstead Cemetery
GV II
Altar and railed vault. c1904 to Arthur Frankau, poet.
Polished granite and bronze. Granite altar with pedimented
reredos having a silver mosaic evening star and gold mosaic
sun setting behind an inscribed pale granite plaque with Greek
key border at base. Vault in front of altar with curved
inscribed granite lid having 4 large bronze ring handles and
plinth, with carved ribboned laurel wreath, crowned by a
bronze urn with anthemion relief enrichment and a snake coiled
around the neck and handles ready to attack a winged orb.
Vault surrounded by granite kerb with shaped dies and bronze
railings with anthemion finials, and inscription from
Tennyson. Arthur's son, Gilbert Frankau, novelist, also buried
here.
Listing NGR: TQ2508585694
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