Tomb Of Arthur Frankau 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 Arthur Frankau And Family In Hampstead Cemetery

WRENN ID
ruined-frieze-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Country
England
Date first listed
11 January 1999
Type
Tomb
Source
Historic England listing

Description

CAMDEN

TQ2585NW FORTUNE GREEN ROAD 798-1/24/495 Tomb of Arthur Frankau and family in Hampstead Cemetery

GV II

Altar and railed vault. c1904 to Arthur Frankau, poet. Polished granite and bronze. Granite altar with pedimented reredos having a silver mosaic evening star and gold mosaic sun setting behind an inscribed pale granite plaque with Greek key border at base. Vault in front of altar with curved inscribed granite lid having 4 large bronze ring handles and plinth, with carved ribboned laurel wreath, crowned by a bronze urn with anthemion relief enrichment and a snake coiled around the neck and handles ready to attack a winged orb. Vault surrounded by granite kerb with shaped dies and bronze railings with anthemion finials, and inscription from Tennyson. Arthur's son, Gilbert Frankau, novelist, also buried here.

Listing NGR: TQ2508585694

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