39-1016: Henry Kendall may refer to: People [ edit ] Henry Edward Kendall (1776–1875), English architect Henry Edward Kendall Jr. (1805–1885), his son, also an architect Henry Ernest Kendall (1864–1949), farmer, physician and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Henry George Kendall (1874–1965), British sea captain Henry H. Kendall , (1855–1943), American architect Henry Kendall (actor) (1897–1962), British stage and film character actor Henry Kendall (ornithologist) (1849–1934), Australian ornithologist Henry Kendall (poet) (1839–1882), Australian poet Henry P. Kendall (1878–1959), American industrialist, philanthropist, father of Henry Way Kendall Henry Kendall (urban planner) (1903–1983), British architect Henry Way Kendall (1926–1999), American physicist and Nobel laureate Places [ edit ] Henry Kendall College, earlier name of what
78-586: A Church of England chapel. Company directors appointed after the Bill received Royal Assent asserted their control and preference for a different style. One of the competition judges and a company shareholder, John Griffith of Finbury, who had previously produced working drawings for a boundary wall, ultimately designed the cemetery's two chapels and the main gateway and 15,000 trees were supplied and planted by Hugh Ronalds from his nursery in Brentford . Founded as
117-530: A canal. The cemetery is home to at least 33 species of bird and other wildlife. This distinctive cemetery has memorials ranging from large mausoleums housing the rich and famous to many distinctive smaller graves and includes special areas dedicated to the very young. It has three chapels and serves all faiths. It is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London. The cemetery was immortalised in
156-737: A monument to Kendall's son, attributed to Kendall senior. Henry Edward Kendall died in Westminster , 4 January 1875, aged 98. Some of Kendall's earliest work and commissions were in Lincolnshire , where he specialised in Court or Session houses and Prisons or Houses of Correction. His first works were the Spalding House of Correction in 1824 and the Spilsby Sessions House of 1824–6. The Spalding House of Correction
195-420: A simple plot in the grounds of the cemetery, although less costly than a brick-lined grave or mausoleum . Without the further expense and responsibility of a monument above the grave, the catacombs have afforded a secure, dignified and exclusive resting place for the well-to-do, particularly the unmarried, the childless and young children of those without family plots or mausolea elsewhere. The cemetery contains
234-648: Is a cemetery in the Kensal Green area of North Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in London, England. Inspired by Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, it was founded by the barrister George Frederick Carden . The cemetery opened in 1833 and comprises 72 acres (29 ha) of grounds, including two conservation areas, adjoining
273-697: Is also on the north side. Alma Place leads to the West London Crematorium (whose owner and operator is the same) and St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery , which are in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham . The cemetery lies between Harrow Road and the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal to the south which has long been separated by a wall. A set of defunct gates is set in the southern wall which adjoins
312-517: Is approximately oval in shape and was formerly made prominent by a wider central axis path that terminated with the neo-classical chapel with curved colonnades . The Anglican Chapel dominates the western section of the cemetery, being raised on a terrace beneath that is an extensive catacomb ; there is a hydraulic catafalque for lowering coffins into the catacomb. It is still in operation today; burials and cremations take place daily, although cremations are now more common than interments. The cemetery
351-476: Is at the centre of the cemetery, and contains several tombs. The chapel was damaged during the Second World War but was restored in 1954. Under the chapel is a catacomb , one of the few in London. The catacomb is currently not maintained but can be visited as part of a guided tour. It still has a working coffin-lift or catafalque , restored by The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery in 1997. Situated in
390-736: Is commemorated by the CWGC is General Sir Charles Douglas (1850–1914), Chief of the Imperial General Staff in early months of the First World War. The cemetery is remarkable for the number of Fellows of the Royal Society who are buried there, of whom the following is a small sample: Although the cemetery is owned and run by the General Cemetery Company , The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery
429-411: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Henry Edward Kendall Henry Edward Kendall (23 March 1776 – 4 January 1875) was an English architect. Kendall was a student of Thomas Leverton and possibly of John Nash . His wide-ranging styles included Greek , Italian and Tudor revival . His son, Henry Edward Kendall Jr. (1805–1885)
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#1732801860903468-513: Is listed Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens . It remains in use. The cemetery is in both the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London. Its main entrance is on Harrow Road (west of where Ladbroke Grove and Chamberlayne Road meet). Its other entrance, Alma Place (the West Gate, almost opposite Greyhound Road)
507-467: Is listed Grade I, while the Dissenters' Chapel, Kensal Green is listed Grade II* and the colonnade/catacomb and perimeter walls and railings are listed Grade II. Of the many tombs, memorials and mausoleums, eight are listed Grade II*, while The Reformers' Memorial is listed Grade II. The Tomb of Charles Spencer Ricketts is listed Grade II* and was designed by William Burges . The Anglican Chapel
546-616: Is listed as grade II. The cemetery has three catacombs for the deposit of lead-sealed, triple-shelled coffins and cremated remains. Catacomb A, beneath the North Terrace Colonnade is now sealed. Catacomb Z, beneath the Dissenters' Chapel at the eastern end of the cemetery, suffered significant bomb damage during World War II , and is also closed to further deposits. Catacomb B, beneath the Anglican Chapel in
585-607: Is now the University of Tulsa See also [ edit ] Harry Kendall (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Kendall&oldid=1235680515 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
624-501: Is still run by the General Cemetery Company under its original Act of Parliament . This mandates that bodies there may not be exhumed and cremated or the land sold for development. Once the cemetery has exhausted all its interment space and can no longer function as a cemetery, the mandate requires that it shall remain a memorial park. The General Cemetery Company constructed and runs the West London Crematorium within
663-621: The General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green , the cemetery was the first of the " Magnificent Seven " garden-style cemeteries in London. It was consecrated on 24 January 1833 by Charles James Blomfield , the Bishop of London, receiving its first funeral the same month. In the early 1850s, after a series of cholera epidemics in London caused an examination of London's burial facilities, health commissioner Edwin Chadwick proposed
702-511: The "General Cemetery Company". Public meetings were held in June and July 1830 at the Freemasons' Tavern, and George Carden was elected treasurer. Paul, a partner in the London banking firm of Strahan, Paul, Paul and Bates, found and conditionally purchased the 54 acres (22 ha) of land at Kensal Green for £9,500. Paul and Carden were already embroiled in a dispute regarding the design of
741-634: The General Cemetery Company. The cemetery is the burial site of approximately 250,000 individuals in over 65,000 graves, including upward of 500 members of the British nobility and 970 people listed in the Dictionary of National Biography . Many monuments, particularly the larger ones, lean precariously as they have settled over time on the underlying London clay. Many buildings and structures within Kensal Green are listed . The Anglican Chapel
780-746: The Sessions House, but stone from quarries near Barnsley was used for the columns of the portico The Spilsby prison was followed by a further prison at Louth in Lincolnshire around 1828. In 1828 Kendall won the competition for building the Sessions House in Sleaford in a Tudor Gothic revival style for the Kesteven magistrates. Kendall was to work closely with the local builder and architect Charles Kirk on this project. This
819-748: The canal where barges took a proportion of earth from excavating graves and occasionally coffins carried by barge were unloaded. George Frederick Carden had failed with an earlier attempt to establish a British equivalent to Paris 's Père Lachaise Cemetery in 1825, but a new committee established in February 1830, including Andrew Spottiswoode , MP for Saltash , sculptor Robert William Sievier , banker Sir John Dean Paul , Charles Broughton Bowman (first committee secretary), and architects Thomas Willson (who had previously proposed an ambitious Metropolitan Sepulchre project) and Augustus Charles Pugin , gained more financial, political and public support to fund
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#1732801860903858-673: The cemetery, where Paul favoured the Grecian style and Carden the Gothic style. A succession of architects were contemplated, including Benjamin Wyatt (who declined), Charles Fowler (proposal not taken up), Francis Goodwin , Willson, and a Mr Lidell, a pupil of John Nash , before an architectural competition was launched in November 1831. This attracted 46 entrants, and in March 1832 the premium
897-535: The central path to the chapel. The Church of England was allotted 39 acres and the remaining 15, clearly separated, acres were given over to Dissenters , a distinction deemed crucial at the time. Originally there was a division between the Dissenters' part of the cemetery and the Anglican section. This took the form of a "sunk fence" from the canal to the gate piers on the path. There were also decorative iron gates. The small area designated for non-Anglican burials
936-465: The centre of the cemetery, has space for some 4,000 deposits, and still offers both private loculi and shelves or vaults for family groups. The catacomb extends under the entire footprint of the chapel and its colonnades. There are six aisles, within which each vault is numbered, running consecutively to number 216 at the south-western end of aisle 6. Deposit within the catacombs of Kensal Green has always been more expensive and prestigious than burial in
975-532: The closure of all existing burial grounds in the vicinity of London other than the privately owned Kensal Green Cemetery, north-west of the city, which was to be nationalised and greatly enlarged to provide a single burial ground for west London. (A large tract of land on the Thames around 9 miles (14 km) south-east of London in Abbey Wood was to become a single burial ground for east London. ) The Treasury
1014-486: The co-founders of what became the Royal Institute of British Architects . Kendall designed many civic buildings including workhouses , hospitals and schools. In 1832 he won the hundred guinea prize for his Gothic design for Kensal Green Cemetery and his Italianate design was runner-up, yet, despite this, his designs were overlooked in favour of a Greek revival design by John Griffith . The cemetery contains
1053-487: The eastern corner of the cemetery this Greek Revival structure was for the use of all non-Anglican denominations and of non-believers. Only part of the cemetery was consecrated , and Dissenters could opt to be buried in the non-consecrated areas following a service here. The cemetery became favoured by nonconformists , free-thinkers , non-Christians and atheists , and thus this chapel became popular. The Dissenters' Chapel had become derelict and partly roofless, so in 1995
1092-774: The graves of 473 Commonwealth service personnel of the First World War —half of whom form a war graves plot in the south-west corner, the remainder in small groups or individual graves scattered throughout the grounds—and 51 of the Second who are all dispersed. A distinct memorial list the names of Belgian soldiers who fell 1914-1918. In the First World War plot, at Section 213, a Screen Wall memorial lists casualties of both world wars whose graves could not be marked by headstones, besides five Second World War servicemen who were cremated at Kensal Green (also known as West London) Crematorium. The highest-ranking person buried here who
1131-670: The grounds of the cemetery. While borrowing from the ideals established at Père Lachaise some years before, Kensal Green Cemetery contributed to the design and management basis for many cemetery projects throughout the British Empire of the time. In Australia, for example, the Necropolis at Rookwood (1868) and Waverley Cemetery (1877), both in Sydney , are noted for their use of the "gardenesque" landscape qualities and importantly self-sustaining management structures championed by
1170-1292: The happiness of all classes of society". The monument has lists of names of reformers and radicals on its north and east sides (together with further names added in 1907 by Emma Corfield). It is paired with the Robert Owen memorial, and a second instance of a non-funerary memorial in the cemetery's nonconformist section. The memorial was amended to include Lloyd Jones to recognise his contribution. "THIS MEMORIAL IS RAISED AS A TOKEN OF REGARD TO THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHOSE NAMES IT BEARS BY JOSEPH W. CORFIELD, AUGUST 1895." "THE REFORMERS' MEMORIAL ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE GENEROUSLY GIVEN THEIR TIME AND MEANS TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS AND ENHANCE THE HAPPINESS OF ALL CLASSES OF SOCIETY. THEY HAVE FELT THAT A FAR HAPPIER AND MORE PROSPEROUS LIFE IS WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL MEN, AND THEY HAVE EARNESTLY SOUGHT TO REALIZE IT. THE OLD BRUTAL LAWS OF IMPRISONMENT FOR FREE PRINTING HAVE BEEN SWEPT AWAY AND THE RIGHT OF SELECTING OUR OWN LAW MAKERS HAS BEEN GAINED MAINLY BY THEIR EFFORTS. THE EXERCISE OF THESE RIGHTS WILL GIVE THE PEOPLE AN INTEREST IN THE LAWS THAT GOVERN THEM, AND WILL MAKE THEM BETTER MEN AND BETTER CITIZENS." The names of over seventy people are inscribed on
1209-548: The lines of G. K. Chesterton 's poem " The Rolling English Road " from his book The Flying Inn : For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen; Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green. Despite its Grecian-style buildings, the cemetery is primarily Gothic in character, due to the high number of private Gothic monuments. Due to this atmosphere, the cemetery was the chosen location of several scenes in movies, notably in Theatre of Blood . The cemetery
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1248-1543: The monument. These are, in order shown on the monument: The entry for Robert Owen reads: The cenotaph to Robert Owen, who was buried in Newtown, Montgomeryshire , Wales, is fittingly at the side of the Reformers' Memorial. "ROBERT OWEN PHILANTHROPIST BORN MAY 14TH. 1771. DIED NOVR. 17TH. 1858." "1879 ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION IN MEMORY OF ROBERT OWEN OF NEW LANARK, BORN AT NEWTOWN, N. WALES 1771. HE DIED AND WAS BURIED AT THE SAME PLACE 1858, AGED 87 YEARS. ––––––––––––– HE ORIGINATED AND ORGANIZED INFANT SCHOOLS, HE SECURED A REDUCTION OF THE HOURS OF LABOUR FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN FACTORIES. HE WAS A LIBERAL SUPPORTER OF THE EARLY EFFORTS IN FAVOUR OF NATIONAL EDUCATION AND LABOURED TO PROMOTE INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION. HE WAS ONE OF THE FOREMOST ENGLISHMEN [ sic ] WHO TAUGHT MEN TO ASPIRE TO A HIGHER SOCIAL STATE BY RECONCILING THE INTERESTS OF CAPITAL AND LABOUR. HE SPENT HIS LIFE AND A LARGE FORTUNE IN SEEKING TO IMPROVE HIS FELLOW MEN BY GIVING THEM EDUCATION, SELF-RELIANCE AND MORE WORTH. "MR. OWEN'S WRITINGS ––––––––––––––––– REPORT TO THE COUNTY OF LANARK. NEW VIEWS OF SOCIETY. TWELVE LECTURES. LECTURES ON MARRIAGE. LECTURES ON A NEW STATE OF SOCIETY. THE BOOK OF THE NEW MORAL WORLD. SIX LECTURES AT MANCHESTER. MANIFESTO OF ROBERT OWEN. SELF SUPPORTING HOME COLONIES. LETTERS TO THE HUMAN RACE. REVOLUTION IN MIND AND PRACTICE. ROBERT OWEN'S JOURNAL. LIFE OF ROBERT OWEN." The memorial
1287-456: Was also an architect and, for a while, the two ran a practice together, which, in 1834, was located at 17, Suffolk Street, London. The Esplanade and Tunnel in Kemp Town , Brighton , dating between 1828 and 1830, was one of their notable works. Lewis Cubitt (who married his daughter Sophia in 1830) was amongst those who worked at the practice before setting up on his own. Both were amongst
1326-635: Was awarded, despite some opposition, for a Gothic Revival design by Henry Edward Kendall; this decision was eventually overturned. On 11 July 1832, the Act of Parliament establishing a "General Cemetery Company for the interment of the Dead in the Neighbourhood of the Metropolis" gained Royal Assent. The Act authorised it to raise up to £45,000 in shares, buy up to 80 acres of land and build a cemetery and
1365-533: Was built in the Sheep Market at a cost of £15,000. In 1834 the prison had 45 sleeping cells and seven dayrooms or wards. In 1842 it was said to contain 48 sleeping cells, sixteen dayrooms and seven yards, as well as a governor's house, chapel and treadmill. The prison was handed over to the Prison Commissioners following nationalisation of the prison system in 1878. It closed in 1884. The prison
1404-460: Was demolished in the 1920s when the Drill Hall was built on the site. Kendall appears to have built a very similar prison block at Spilsby in 1824–6. The plans and specifications are given in C. Davy's Architectural Precedents of 1841 At Spilsby an impressive court or Sessions House was added at the front of the prison with a Doric portico . Ancaster stone was used for the exterior of
1443-528: Was followed by Carr's Hospital of 1830 in Sleaford. Kendall was also responsible, probably working with Kirk for the remodelling of Haverholme Priory in a Tudor Gothic style, and for additions to Aswarby Park in 1836-38. and Fishtoft Rectory. Kendall exhibited paintings of architectural subjects at the Royal Academy between 1799 and 1843. Kensal Green Cemetery Kensal Green Cemetery
1482-499: Was leased to the Historic Chapels Trust who undertook £447,000 of restoration. The chapel currently serves as the office of The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery, but is also available for funeral services. The Reformers' Memorial was erected in 1885. It was erected at the instigation of Joseph Corfield "to the memory of men and women who have generously given their time and means to improve the conditions and enlarge
1521-485: Was sceptical that Chadwick's scheme would ever be financially viable, and it was widely unpopular. Although the Metropolitan Interments Act 1850 ( 13 & 14 Vict. c. 52) authorised the scheme, it was abandoned in 1852. The overall layout is on an east–west axis, with a central path leading to a raised chapel toward the west. The entrance is to the north-east and the largest monuments line
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