The churchyard of the old parish church at Chiswick and the adjacent burial ground are best knows for the graves of Hogarth and Whistler. But they offer so much more, with monuments to figures of local and national importance representing architecture, property development (with the subsiding tomb of Jonathan Carr, the developer of Bedford Park), sculpture, brewing, shipbuilding, politics, mental health (from the period when Chiswick House nearby was an asylum) and much more.
The tour, led by trustee and local resident Henry Sainty, will also visit the church, substantially rebuilt by JL Pearson in the early 1880s and also featuring work by William Burges from the 1860s.
Meeting Place:Under the tower of the church, off Church Street, Chiswick, W4
Image: St Nicholas, Chiswick Parish Church, London W4, seen from Chiswick (Old) Churchyard. The tower is 15th century, the remainder being rebuilt between 1882 and 1884. By Patche99z – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5601534