Monument to John Frederick Ginnett
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Location
| Street: | Lewes Road |
| Town: | Brighton |
| Parish: | Brighton |
| Council: | Brighton & Hove City Council |
| County: | East Sussex |
| Postcode: | BN2 |
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| Object setting: | Garden |
| and in: | Religious |
| Access is: | Public |
| Location note: | Woodvale Cemetery, east side, about 150 metres west of Crematorium |
| In the AZ book: | East Sussex |
| Page: | 132 |
| Grid reference: | D5 |
| The A-Z books used are A-Z East Sussex and A-Z West Sussex (Editions 1A 2005). Geographers' A-Z Map Company Ltd. Sevenoaks. | |
| OS Reference: | TQ3205 |
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Makers
| Name : | Edwin Roscoe Mullins |
| Role: | Sculptor |
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General Information
| Commissioned by: | Ginnett family |
| Construction period: | c1892 |
| Installation date: | 1892 |
| Work is: | Extant |
| Owner custodian: | Ginnett family |
| Object listing: | Grade II: of special interest warranting every effort to preserve them |
| Description: | Faces south west onto one of the main cemetery roads. Tomb of the Ginnett family, particularly of John Frederick Ginnett who was a circus proprietor. Portland stone and granite. A base of granite with rock-faced rustication surmounted by granite posts and chains. The tomb takes the form of a Portland stone plinth with apsidal ends, the broad faces divided into panels by Ionic pilasters supporting a lozenge-patterned frieze, the whole surmounted by a statue of a pony on an integral base. |
| Signatures: | Illegible signature and date to back of integral base of horse. |
| Inscription: | TO•THE•DEAR•MEMORY•OF JOHN•FREDERICK•GINNETT. BORN•IN•1819•AT•LEA•IN ESSEX•DIED•AT•BRIGHTON JANUARY•12•1892:AND•OF HIS•DEARLY•LOVED•WIFE ANNIE•MARIA:DAUGHTER OF•JOHN•SNAPE•OF•LEAM- INGTON:IN•HER•62ND•YEAR. Other inscribed plaques at each corner and to the back of the monument record the names of other family members buried there. |
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Classification
| Categories: | Funerary, Free Standing, Composite, Commemorative, Animal, Sculptural |
| Object type1: | Marker |
| Object subtype1: | Commemorative stone |
| Object type2: | Sculpture |
| Object type3: | Statue |
| Subject type1: | Figurative |
| Subject subtype1: | Equestrian |
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Object Parts
| Part 1: | Enclosed base set into the bank |
| Material: | Granite |
| Height (cm): | 160 |
| Width (cm): | 445 |
| Depth (cm): | 130 |
| Part 2: | Plinth |
| Material: | Portland stone |
| Height (cm): | 240 |
| Width (cm): | 260 |
| Depth (cm): | 100 |
| Part 3: | Statue |
| Material: | Stone |
| Height (cm): | 115 |
| Width (cm): | 140 |
| Depth (cm): | 65 |
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Object Condition
| Overall condition: | Good |
| Risk assessment: | No known risk |
| Condition 1 of type: | Surface |
| Condition 1: | Corrosion, Deterioration |
| More details: | Corrosion to the statue of the horse, signature almost illegible. Some of the detail of the horse lost. |
| Date of on-site inspection: | 01/05/2008 |
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History
| History: | John Frederick Ginnet (1819, Lea, Essex – 12 January 1892, Brighton). The last of Ginnet’s sons to be buried in the grave was Louis John Ginnett who died in 1947 and was a well-known portrait painter who taught at the Brighton College of Art in Grand Parade.
(Brighton Cemeteries) John Frederick Ginnett was the eldest son of Jean Pierre Ginnett (d. 1861) the founder of the Ginnett circus dynasty. Ginnett’s sons also worked in the circus business, Claude, Frederick and Albert. His father is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. Descendents of Ginnett continue to work the circus today (see http://www.circusginnett.com/about.htm). John Frederick Ginnett was a celebrated horseman and performed for the King and Queen at Brighton in 1832. He took over his father’s circus when he died in 1861. He built several permanent circus buildings. Ginnett died from bronchitis and asthma. The Woodvale Cemetery was opened in 1857. The Woodvale crematorium and chapels are located in this cemetery. The burial ground is Grade II listed and until 1902 was known as the Brighton 'Parochial' cemetery. (Brighton and Hove City Council) |
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References
| Source 1 : | |
| Title: | 'Brighton Cemeteries' |
| Type: | Book |
| Author: | Dale, Antony. |
| Edition: | 1995 Reprint |
| Page: | 23-24 |
| Publisher: | Brighton Borough Council. Brighton. |
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Photographs
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