Tomb of Benjamin Golding, Brompton Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 2011. Mausoleum.
Tomb of Benjamin Golding, Brompton Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- solitary-banister-moss
- 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
- Mausoleum
- Address
- Tomb of Benjamin Golding, Brompton Cemetery, Old Brompton Road, London, Sw10, SW5 9JE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 255 780
- Coordinates
- 51.48766, -0.1938
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tomb of Benjamin Golding, located in Brompton Cemetery, is a small rectangular mausoleum built from Portland stone in a Neoclassical/Early Christian style. It faces the central avenue near the northern entrance of the cemetery. The main doorway features a raised surround with two carved rosettes and is fitted with a heavy iron door adorned with rosette and scrollwork ornamentation. Above the door is an inscription panel that reads: 'Family Tomb of Benjamin Golding M.D.'
The sides and rear of the mausoleum are decorated with a series of tall shallow round-headed panels, each carved with a Maltese cross and a row of dentils. Below these panels are inscriptions that commemorate various members of the Golding family, with Benjamin Golding being noted as 'the founder of the Charing Cross Hospital, London.' Above the inscriptions is a frieze of square panels that are pierced with a design of two superimposed crosses. Each of the two pediments features a simple design of a Calvary cross, and the mausoleum is topped with a ridged stone roof.
Local climate
Tomb of Benjamin Golding, 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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