Tomb Of Commander Charles Spencer Ricketts, Royal Navy

The tomb of Commander Charles Spencer Ricketts, Royal Navy, is a Grade II* listed structure located in Kensal Green Cemetery. Designed by William Burges, this tomb commemorates Ricketts, who died in 1867. It features a canopied design made of Portland stone, with shafts crafted from Peterhead granite, all resting on colonnettes of Serpentine marble. The inner chest is shaped like a medieval bier, draped with a decorative heraldic awning adorned with Union Jacks and detailed with mastic-filled inlay, supported by eight colonnettes. The outer canopy is held up by eight ringed shafts, each side displaying three trefoil-headed openings. Each gable is decorated with a relief of a woodewose and topped with a crocketed finial. The design includes gargoyle waterspouts. Ricketts was a naval officer who later became a squire in Buckinghamshire, and the tomb was erected by his daughter.