Brass family tomb, Brompton Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 2011. Tomb.
Brass family tomb, Brompton Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- rusted-crypt-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham MP: Ben Coleman (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 2011
- Type
- Tomb
- Address
- Brass family tomb, Brompton Cemetery, Old Brompton Road, London, Sw10
- OS grid reference
- TQ 257 776
- Coordinates
- 51.4842, -0.19007
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Brass family tomb, located in Brompton Cemetery, is a Grade II listed structure made of Portland stone and features a bronze relief panel. This very tall headstone, approximately 2 meters high, is designed in the Free Classical style. It includes supporting volutes and an upper section with two short Ionic pilasters beneath a segmental pediment. The inset bronze relief, created in 1899 and signed by the sculptor A Stanley Young, depicts mourners at a death-bed. In front of the headstone is a raised ledger slab shaped like a scroll. The plot is defined by moulded copings, with miniature Ionic pilasters at the outer corners. Inscriptions in Art Nouveau bronze lettering honor Horace Lot (died 1896), his father Lot Brass (1854-1937), his mother Elizabeth Brass (1856-1939), and his brother, the lawyer and civil servant Sir Leslie Brass (1891-1958).
Local climate
Brass family tomb, Brompton Cemetery 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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