Monument To Thomas Helps East Of St Leonards Church is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1998. Monument.
Monument To Thomas Helps East Of St Leonards Church
- WRENN ID
- old-vestry-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1998
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 3071 963/34/10055
STREATHAM HIGH ROAD, SW16 (West side) Monument to Thomas Helps, East of St Leonard's Church
GV II Chest tomb. 1842. Limestone. Rectangular on plan with diagonally-set square projections at each angle. Moulded plinth; plain side-panels in moulded recesses; acanthus-decorated console brackets at corners supporting cover stone which has pedimented sides and gablets at corners, all decorated with anthemion and floral volutes. Inscriptions on east and west panels commemorate Thomas Helps d 1842; his wife Ann, d.1851; and three of their sons, most notable of whom was Sir Arthur Helps, d. 1875. Set on slab which formerly carried iron railings, now missing.
Sir Arthur Helps was clerk of the privy council 1860 - 1875, prepared a number of volumes of Queen Victoria's writings and an edition of Prince Albert's speeches, and was himself an author.
Listing NGR: TQ3001971725
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