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Monument to Joanna Stevenson, Kensal Green Cemetery

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5291 / 51°31'44"N

Longitude: -0.2241 / 0°13'26"W

OS Eastings: 523287

OS Northings: 182632

OS Grid: TQ232826

Mapcode National: GBR BD.86D

Mapcode Global: VHGQR.2TDM

Plus Code: 9C3XGQHG+M9

Entry Name: Monument to Joanna Stevenson, Kensal Green Cemetery

Listing Date: 13 June 2001

Last Amended: 3 April 2012

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1389198

English Heritage Legacy ID: 487833

ID on this website: 101389198

Location: Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, Kensington and Chelsea, London, W10

County: London

District: Kensington and Chelsea

Electoral Ward/Division: Queens Park

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Brent

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Michaell and All Angels Ladbroke Grove

Church of England Diocese: London

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Summary


Portland stone aedicule monument, dated 1840.

Description


A Portland stone aedicule commemorating Joanna Stevenson, died 1840. Square plinth with peripteral Doric colonnettes supporting a pedimented cover.

History


The Cemetery of All Souls at Kensal Green was the earliest of the large privately-run cemeteries established on the fringes of London to relieve pressure on overcrowded urban churchyards. Its founder George Frederick Carden intended it as an English counterpart to the great Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, which he had visited in 1821. In 1830, with the financial backing of the banker Sir John Dean Paul, Carden established the General Cemetery Company, and two years later an Act of Parliament was obtained to develop a 55-acre site at Kensal Green, then among open fields to the west of the metropolis. An architectural competition was held, but the winning entry – a Gothic scheme by HE Kendall – fell foul of Sir John's classicising tastes, and the surveyor John Griffith of Finsbury was eventually employed both to lay out the grounds and to design the Greek Revival chapels, entrance arch and catacombs, which were built between 1834 and 1837. A sequence of royal burials, beginning in 1843 with that of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, ensured the cemetery’s popularity. It is still administered by the General Cemetery Company, assisted since 1989 by the Friends of Kensal Green.

Reasons for Listing


The monument to Joanna Stevenson is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Artistic interest: a large scale and high quality monument;
* Group value: with other listed monuments within the Grade I registered Kensal Green Cemetery.

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