Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26406946

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)