monuments at kensal green


The General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green, boasts one of the finest collection of funerary monuments in the world, with over 130 already Grade II* or Grade II Listed in the national registry of buildings of special architectural or historic interest. A great many more also mark the graves of notable personalities, or appeal as sculpture in their own right. We shall be adding to these pages over the next few months.


Painter & Sculptors


Lady Alma-Tadema
née Laura Epps
(1852-1909)
Painter

 

Illustrators & Cartoonists


George Cruikshank
(1792-1878)
Illustrator & temperance campaigner (translated to St. Paul's Cathedral, 1878)

 

Architects


Thomas Allom
(1804-1872)

 

Collectors & Curators


Henry Spencer Ashbee
(1834-1900)
Bibliophile, collector of Cervantes & erotica




Richard Parkes Bonington
(1802-1828)
Painter
 

John Leech
(1817-1864)
Illustrator & cartoonist
 



Henry Ashton
(1801-1872)

 

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, FSA CIE
(1846-1911)
Architect, archaeologist & museum director


Joseph Durham
(1814-1877)
Sculptor
 

Sir John Tenniel
(1820-1914)
Illustrator & cartoonist
 

William Burn
(1789-1870)
 


John Lucas
(1807-1874)
Portrait painter
 

Sir Leslie Ward (“Spy”)
(1851-1922)
Cartoonist & caricaturist
 

Decimus Burton
(1800-1881)
 



Daniel Maclise, RA
(1806-1870)
History & portrait painter

     

John Gibson, FRIBA
(1817-1892)
   


William Mulready, RA
(1786-1863)
Painter & illustrator
     

Philip Hardwick, FRS RA
(1792-1870)
Philip Charles Hardwick
(1822-1892)
   


John William Waterhouse, RA
(1849-1917)
Painter
     

Owen Jones
(1809-1874)
   

     

John Shaw, FRS
(1803-1870)
   


 
 

John Tarring
(1805-1875)
   
 
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