Tomb Of Thomas Champion, Cheltenham Cemetery

The Tomb of Thomas Champion, located in Cheltenham Cemetery, was designed around 1896, likely by architect W.H. Knight. This tomb features polychrome masonry in the High Victorian Gothic style. It has a stone canopy supported by squat columns made of polished granite, adorned with leaf capitals and polychrome voussoirs. The arches on the long sides of the tomb are decorated with scallop and leaf patterns along the roll moulds, and it has crocketed gables. Statues of the four Evangelists are positioned on column pedestals at the corners, although three of these statues are missing. The tomb includes a wide table with lobed enrichment and is noted as the finest monument in this cemetery. Historically, W.H. Knight won the competition to design the cemetery in 1862.