Memorial To The Pears Family, Isleworth Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Hounslow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 2002. Monument.
Memorial To The Pears Family, Isleworth Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- weathered-finial-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hounslow
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 2002
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
787/0/10143 PARK ROAD 05-NOV-02 Memorial to the Pears family, Islewort h Cemetery
II
Monument to the Pears family. C.1902. Mason unknown. An elaborate tall monument of grey granite, comprising a twelve-sided base, rising up to a circular plinth, with three pilasters. Above the cornice are six projecting balusters, carrying a second cornice which projects over the balusters; above these are antefixes with ribs behind, rising over the domed superstructure. The finial comprises a four-armed cross. The inscriptions are to Andrew Pears d.1909, Andrew Pears junior d.1902, and Thomas Pears d.1912 on board the SS Titanic. HISTORY: the most elaborate monument in the cemetery, this memorial (Baroque in conception) commemorates three men of the Pears family, the prominent soap manufacturers, whose factory was located close by. An exuberant example of the commercial mason's craft, it is also of historic intererst.
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