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Latitude: 51.4852 / 51°29'6"N
Longitude: -0.2529 / 0°15'10"W
OS Eastings: 521405
OS Northings: 177697
OS Grid: TQ214776
Mapcode National: GBR 9N.0YC
Mapcode Global: VHGQX.KXNT
Plus Code: 9C3XFPPW+3R
Entry Name: Tombstone to Sir Percy Harris, Bart, St Nicholas Churchyard
Listing Date: 28 February 2003
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1096142
English Heritage Legacy ID: 490108
ID on this website: 101096142
Location: Hounslow, London, W4
County: London
District: Hounslow
Electoral Ward/Division: Chiswick Homefields
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Hounslow
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Nicholas Chiswick
Church of England Diocese: London
787/0/10145 CHURCH STREET
28-FEB-03 Chiswick
Tombstone to Sir Percy Harris, Bart, S
t Nicholas Churchyard
GV II*
Monument to Sir Percy Harris, Bt., MP (d.1952). Funerary relief. Portland stone. By Bainbridge Copnall (d.1973). A tall rectangular relief on a stepped base bearing an inscription. The relief depicts the resurrection of the dead, and shows rising naked figures (some with 1920s bobbed hair) amid crosses in a cemetery; above hovers a winged angel. The reverse is plain.
HISTORY: this was a youthful work by the prominent 20th century sculptor Bainbridge Copnall, and was carved in the late 1920s. It was acquired by Harris for display in his garden at Morton House, Chiswick Mall, and subsequently transferred to his grave. Symbolically it is indebted to the work of Stanley Spencer, and is of great interest as one of the very last funerary depictions of the Christian theme of the rising of the dead at the Last Judgment. Stylistically it is indebted to the Vorticist Wyndham Lewis. Harris was a prominent Liberal politician, sitting as an MP and serving as deputy leader of the London County Council. His book London and its Government (1913) was the standard work on metropolitan municipal government. Copnall served as President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors 1961-66 and is best known for his decorative carving in the Royal Institute of British Architects' building, opened in 1934. This is a monument of very high quality, and of historic, sculptural and symbolic interest.
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