Tombstone of Milena and Tomasz Arciszewski, Brompton Cemetery, London, photo Bartłomiej Gutowski, 2023
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, Source: Fundacja Pomoc Polakom na Wschodzie

Photo montrant Tombstone of Milena and Tomasz Arciszewski

Tombstone of Milena and Tomasz Arciszewski, Brompton Cemetery, London, photo Bartłomiej Gutowski, 2023
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, Source: Fundacja Pomoc Polakom na Wschodzie

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ID: NGR-014783-P

Tombstone of Milena and Tomasz Arciszewski

London | United Kingdom

Brompton Cemetery

ID: NGR-014783-P

Tombstone of Milena and Tomasz Arciszewski

London | United Kingdom

The burial place is marked by a stele on a base framed on the sides with hussar wings, preceded by a grave field enclosed by a stone fence and covered with irregular slabs. The stele is polished at the front, tapering towards the game, made of two superimposed stone blocks, roughly hewn at the back. On the upper one is an appliqued cross, on the lower one an inscription of appliqued lead letters. Polished wings. Fence in the form of low posts connected by a stone wall. The fence is roughly hewn. In the grave field, two candle bases with carved openings from above are located on the sides of the stele, slightly protruding in front of its face.

Inscription:

TOMASZ ARCISZEWSKI / *12.11.1877 - +20.11.1955 / BOJOWNIK O NIEPODLEGŁOŚĆ / POLSKI I SOCJALIZM / MELANIA ARCISZEWSKA / *11.2.1906 - + 26.4.1980 //.

Related persons:

Tomasz Arciszewski
Melania Arciszewska

Time of origin:

ca. 1981-1985

Emplacement de la pierre tombale:

Numéro de la tombe O/106.9/32.3 N.R. 22016

Dimensions:

149 x 127 x 25 cm

Additional dimensions:

Fence: 270 cm x 118.5 cm, posts 21 cm high

Materials:

coloured magmatic rocks (granite, syenite and others), dark magmatic rocks (basalt, diabase, gabbro, monzonite and others), lead, terrazzo

Additional Information about materials:

stele and fence made of syenite, wings of blackokite, inscription and cross in lead, terrazzo panels, cement joint

Comments on the state of preservation and visible restoration:

For a detailed description of the state of preservation and a programme of conservation work, cf. Izabela Gkagkanis and Małgorzata Sołtys in "Elaboration of the state of preservation of government graves in Great Britain", Warsaw 2022 (typescript kept at the Foundation Aid to Poles in the East)

Supplementary bibliography:

catalogue card prepared on the basis of documentation by Izabela Gkagkanis and Małgorzata Sołtys, in 'Elaboration of the state of preservation of governmental graves in Great Britain', Warsaw 2022 (typescript kept in the Foundation Aid to Poles in the East).

Keywords:

stele, gravestone monument

Date of documentation:

2022

Publikacja:

22.05.2023

Ostatnia aktualizacja:

13.09.2024

Author of the documentation sheet:

Bartłomiej Gutowski

Development / approval of the documentation sheet:

Bartłomiej Gutowski