Description

KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA

TQ 2382 NW HARROW ROAD W10
249/80/22 KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY

07-Nov-1984 Tomb of Commander Charles Spencer
Ricketts, RN

GV II*

Tomb commemorating Commander Charles Spencer Ricketts, died 1867. Designed by William Burges. Portland stone canopied tomb with shafts of Peterhead granite, standing on colonnettes of Serpentine marble. Inner chest in form of a medieval bier, draped with a feigned heraldic awning with Union Jacks and enriched with mastic-filled inlay, standing on eight colonnettes. Outer canopy supported by eight ringed shafts with three trefoil-headed openings per side. Each gable is enriched with a relief of a woodewose, and terminates with a crocketed finial. Gargolye waterspouts. History: Ricketts was a naval officer who subsequently became a Buckinghamshire squire; tomb was erected by his daughter. See J. Mordaunt Crook, William Burges and the High Victorian Dream (1981), 227-8 and London Cemeteries Hugh Meller, plate 66.

Listing NGR: TQ2346782533

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Tomb of Charles Spencer Ricketts at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17552337

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