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Latitude: 51.4321 / 51°25'55"N
Longitude: -0.0979 / 0°5'52"W
OS Eastings: 532321
OS Northings: 172055
OS Grid: TQ323720
Mapcode National: GBR GS.J0S
Mapcode Global: VHGRD.883J
Plus Code: 9C3XCWJ2+RR
Entry Name: West Norwood Memorial Park Tomb of Thomas De La Garde Grissell
Listing Date: 27 March 1981
Last Amended: 21 April 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1065021
English Heritage Legacy ID: 204507
ID on this website: 101065021
Location: West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium, West Norwood, Lambeth, London, SE27
County: London
District: Lambeth
Electoral Ward/Division: Gipsy Hill
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Lambeth
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: West Norwood St Luke
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
Tagged with: Memorial
In the entry for:
(off) NORWOOD ROAD SE27
1. (east side)
5023
TQ 3272 32/716 Tomb of Thomas de la Garde
Grissell in West Norwood
Memorial Park
II
the entry shall be amended to read as follows:
TQ3272 (OFF) NORWOOD ROAD
963-0/32/716 (East side)
27/03/81 West Norwood Memorial Park
Tomb of Thomas De La Garde Grissell
GV II
Chest tomb. c1847, designer unknown. Cast iron, stucco and
pink granite. Rectangular stepped base with mitred corners
having pedestals supporting pilasters with Gothic aedicules
and surmounted by cast figures of standing angels. Pilasters
flank pointed, cusped openings filled with pink granite slabs,
some inscribed. Enriched, coved cornice to flat top with
moulded edges. The whole stands on a large stone platform, now
badly broken, but originally with good Gothic wrought iron
railings. Grissell was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
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(off) NORWOOD ROAD SE27
1. (east side)
5023
Tomb of Thomas De La
Garde Grissell in
West Norwood Memorial
Park
TQ 3272 32/716
II
2.
d. 1847. Tall sarcophagus, with canted angles, on high plinth, built of cast
iron and stucco. Cusped, pointed inscription panels are divided by pilaster buttresses
supporting standing angel figures which rise to enriched coved cornice; the whole
on a platform with gothic wrought iron railing.
Listing NGR: TQ3232172055
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