Monument To John Allan, Nunhead Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Funerary monument.
Monument To John Allan, Nunhead Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- sombre-corner-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Country
- England
- Type
- Funerary monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SOUTHWARK
TQ3575SW LINDEN GROVE 636-1/52/475 Monument to John Allan, Nunhead Cemetery
GV II
Funerary monument. After 1865. To John Allan, d.1865. Possibly by Matthew Noble. Granite aedicule on 2-stage base, with 4 columns per side, surmounted by an arched roof with 2 lion masks per side and a ridge with 2 Celtic cross finials. Steps leading to vault in front. Marble relief of the Ascension on front, bronze portrait roundel on rear. 4 pedestals at corners, originally each with an urn above (some missing at time of inspection). Projecting coffin-like slab in front of the aedicule was originally flanked by a pair of mourning female figures. HISTORICAL NOTE: Allan was a successful Whitby-born shipowner. A portrait in marble of Allan was exhibited by Matthew Noble at the 1867 RA. The monument is based upon the Pavaya Mausoleum at Xanthos, discovered in the 1830s. The most elaborate monument in the cemetery.
Listing NGR: TQ3542175369
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