Tomb of Sir Banister Fletcher and Family in Hampstead Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1999. Tomb.
Tomb of Sir Banister Fletcher and Family in Hampstead Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- rough-quoin-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1999
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Tomb of Sir Banister Fletcher and Family in Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 249 855
- Coordinates
- 51.55489, -0.19969
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tomb of Sir Banister Fletcher and his family is located in Hampstead Cemetery and dates from around 1899. It was designed by Sir Banister Flight Fletcher, the son of the deceased. The memorial features a baldacchino design made of stone, with a rectangular plan and steps that include sculptured figures of seated women dressed in flowing Classical attire at the corners. These figures support an inscribed plinth that is topped by a Classical canopy consisting of four Ionic columns, which hold up an entablature with a projecting cornice inscribed with the name "Banister Fletcher." The canopy was originally crowned by an ornate flaming urn. Beneath the canopy, there is an inscribed column adorned with coats of arms, with the top of the column set between volutes. Sir Banister Fletcher was an architect and architectural historian, known for his work "A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method." Sir Banister Flight Fletcher is also buried at this site.
Local climate
Tomb of Sir Banister Fletcher and Family in Hampstead Cemetery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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