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
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1984
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Tomb of Commander Charles Spencer Ricketts, Royal Navy, Harrow Road W10
- OS grid reference
- TQ 234 825
- Coordinates
- 51.52824, -0.22145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Tomb of Commander Charles Spencer Ricketts, Royal Navy sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- 4 Monument to Elizabeth Ricketts in Churchyard, About 7 Metres South of Tower of Church of St Mary the Virgin
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