WORKING MEN'S MONUMENT IN BURIAL GROUND TO SOUTH OF MILNES ORANGERY

WORKING MEN'S MONUMENT IN BURIAL GROUND TO SOUTH OF MILNES ORANGERY, BACK LANE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260172
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-1979
List Entry Name:: WORKING MEN'S MONUMENT IN BURIAL GROUND TO SOUTH OF MILNES ORANGERY
Statutory Address:: WORKING MEN'S MONUMENT IN BURIAL GROUND TO SOUTH OF MILNES ORANGERY, BACK LANE

Monument in foreground with the separately Listed Orangery to the rear, all under a moody sky. — Uploaded by Eric Branse-Instone This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2001-03-24
Reference:: IOE01/03861/09
Rights:: © Mr John Turner. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260172
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-1979
List Entry Name:: WORKING MEN'S MONUMENT IN BURIAL GROUND TO SOUTH OF MILNES ORANGERY
Statutory Address 1:: WORKING MEN'S MONUMENT IN BURIAL GROUND TO SOUTH OF MILNES ORANGERY, BACK LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WORKING MEN'S MONUMENT IN BURIAL GROUND TO SOUTH OF MILNES ORANGERY, BACK LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 32803 20771

Details

1. BACK LANE 5115 (North Side) Working men's monument in burial ground to south of Milnes orangery (Unitarian Chapel Hall) SE 3220 NE 1/55

II

2. Dated 1850. Broken column on tall plinth with inscription in panel: WORKING MEN'S MONUMENT. This column was erected by the voluntary subscriptions of 999 inhabitants of Wakefield and neighbourhood to the late Joseph Horner Jr, corn miller of this tour, as a testimonial of the high respect and esteem with which they regarded him for his unflinching, persevering and consistent advocacy of the religious, moral, social and political rights and liberties of the people.

Listing NGR: SE3280320771

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 441429
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.