The Northern Colonnade is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1984. Civic.
The Northern Colonnade
- WRENN ID
- sheer-stronghold-river
- 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
- Civic
- Address
- The Northern Colonnade, Harrow Road W10
- OS grid reference
- TQ 231 827
- Coordinates
- 51.52999, -0.22582
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Northern Colonnade is a cemetery colonnade and catacombs built between 1832 and 1833 by John Griffith, who was the Surveyor to the General Cemetery Company. Constructed from Portland stone with rendered brick walls and a York stone floor, the single-storey colonnade features 26 bays supported by unfluted baseless Doric columns. The three endmost bays at each end project and are flanked by square piers. A low parapet remains in part, with some anthemion finials still in place. The rear wall once held numerous marble memorial tablets and relief sculptures, although most have been lost due to vandalism. The catacombs beneath are no longer accessible and are partly blocked with rubble. This colonnade is one of the earliest structures in the cemetery, originally designed to house memorials for those interred in the catacombs below, which were the first of their kind in the country and had a capacity for about 2,000 coffins.
Local climate
The Northern Colonnade 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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