Tomb Of Commander Charles Spencer Ricketts, Royal Navy is a Grade II* listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1984. Tomb.
Tomb Of Commander Charles Spencer Ricketts, Royal Navy
- WRENN ID
- plain-garret-foxglove
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1984
- Type
- Tomb
- Source
- Historic England listing
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
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