UNDERGROUND ARTISTS - A Guided Tour of Brompton Cemetery and Its Cultural Corpses
- Brompton Cemetery
Description
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
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Tickets from £12.00
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Fulham
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n/a
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Sun, 20th Oct 2024 @ multiple start times (see ticket info)
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Multiple start times (see ticket info)
Brompton Cemetery opened in 1840 and is one of the famed Magnificent Seven Cemeteries of London. At its centre lies an outstanding Grade II* listed architectural complex centred on the Great Circle which is surrounded by extensive ranges of colonnades above catacombs and overlooked by the domed Anglican Chapel: a configuration said to have been inspired by the layout of St Peter’s in Rome.
Within the cemetery’s 40 acres are to be found a great cross-section of Victorian worthies. On this tour you will see the graves of art patrons, gallery founders, art critics, art collectors, artists’ models, painters and sculptors. Notable Victorian painters interred here include Samuel Prout and Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, as well as pre-Raphaelites Val Princep and John William Waterhouse. It is also the final resting place of other artistic individuals, including Fanny Brawne, John Keats’ muse and lover, and Constant Lambert founder of the Royal Ballet.
Join Robert Stephenson to hear about the very human interactions between various of these volatile individuals. Learn the story of Effie Gray’s escape from her unconsummated marriage to John Ruskin and much else besides. You will also be able to view the grandiose Grade II* listed funerary monument designed by Sir Edward Burne Jones and visit the catacombs.
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| Ticket | Event time | Cost |
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Underground artists
Brompton Cemetery Tour |
11:00 - 12:30 | £12.00 |
Location
Address
Brompton Cemetery, SW10 9UG
Area
Fulham
Nearest Station
Fulham Broadway (Tube)
Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
This year Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation will be hosting The London Month of the Dead, a series of 36 different events investigating the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents. Events will include a private view of the Museum of London’s bone archive, taxidermy workshops, macabre walking tours and private views and a programme of weekend death salons with talks on subjects ranging from public dissection and body snatching to reincarnation and funereal folklore. Each salon will feature a pair of speakers, authorities in fields such as osteology, forensic pathology and the paranormal, who will offer their own perspectives and insights on mortality in the city.
Each year the London Month of the Dead donates 20% of all ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries. In 2017 all of the death salons and concerts will be hosted at the Dissenters and Anglican chapels at Kensal Green. In previous years the month's programme has centered around Brompton Cemetery but the chapel is now undergoing important restoration work, a project the London Month of the Dead is proud to have supported.
The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.
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