Description

RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
656-1/0/0 Abbey Cemetery
Pratt Tomb

GV II

Tomb of Charles Pratt (d.1844).
Neoclassical aedicule of white marble on a Pennant stone plinth. Pedimented canopy carried on four fluted columns with lotus leaf capitals. Inside is a truncated column, surmounted by a coronet. The pedestal bears martial reliefs.
HISTORY: One of the earliest memorials in the cemetery. Pratt was a soldier `of Eling, Hants. He served with great distinction in Flanders under HRH the Duke of York and under Sir David Baird at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope, and was subsequently for many years a Commissary-General to the forces in the Peninsula, under his Grace the Duke of Wellington¿. He was a Knight Commander of the Imperial Order of Christ, and this order is carved in relief around the inscription panel. Pratt lived at Combe Grove. The monument also commemorates (on the north side) Lieut Col. Sir William Lockyer Freestun (d.1862), MP for Weymouth 1847-59. Located at section I, lower border.

Listing NGR: ST758635

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26675137

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