Tomb of Admiral Sir John Ross London, England
Listed Building Data
Tomb of Admiral Sir John Ross has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1389215
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 13 June 2001
- Name
- TOMB OF ADMIRAL SIR JOHN ROSS
- Location
- TOMB OF ADMIRAL SIR JOHN ROSS, HARROW ROAD W10
- District
- Kensington and Chelsea
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 23173 82500
- Easting
- 523173.3760
- Northing
- 182499.8320
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA
TQ2382NW HARROW ROAD W10 249/80/97 Kensal Green Cemetery 13-JUN-01 Tomb of Admiral Sir John Ross
II
Tomb of Admiral Sir John Ross, died 1856. Carrara marble cross, entwined with anchor and chain, upon a cairn, set on a stepped pedestal. This symbol of the anchor and cross on cairn, emblematic of Christian hope and fortitude, became a commonplace of later Victorian funerary sculpture. This is a very early example. History: Ross, described here as THE ARCTIC EXPLORER, left his retirement to search the Arctic for Sir John Franklin in 1850-1.
