TOMB OF MICHAEL WOOD SET IN AN ENCLOSURE ON OTHER SIDE OF WALL TO BUS STOP IN GRAVEYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

TOMB OF MICHAEL WOOD SET IN AN ENCLOSURE ON OTHER SIDE OF WALL TO BUS STOP IN GRAVEYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, DEWSBURY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262921
Date first listed:: 16-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF MICHAEL WOOD SET IN AN ENCLOSURE ON OTHER SIDE OF WALL TO BUS STOP IN GRAVEYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: TOMB OF MICHAEL WOOD SET IN AN ENCLOSURE ON OTHER SIDE OF WALL TO BUS STOP IN GRAVEYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, DEWSBURY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262921
Date first listed:: 16-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF MICHAEL WOOD SET IN AN ENCLOSURE ON OTHER SIDE OF WALL TO BUS STOP IN GRAVEYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB OF MICHAEL WOOD SET IN AN ENCLOSURE ON OTHER SIDE OF WALL TO BUS STOP IN GRAVEYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, DEWSBURY ROAD

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TOMB OF MICHAEL WOOD SET IN AN ENCLOSURE ON OTHER SIDE OF WALL TO BUS STOP IN GRAVEYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, DEWSBURY ROAD

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

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Morley
National Grid Reference:: SE 27161 25025

Details

SE22NE WF12 DEWSBURY ROAD MORLEY (east side, off), Woodkirk

2/80 Tomb of Michael Wood set in an enclosure on other side of wall to bus stop in graveyard of Church of St. Mary

- II

Chest Tomb. 1801. Ashlar. Raised stone slab on panelled base with fluted pilasters to corners and to centre.

Finely-carved stone with trumpeting angels set in spandrels of arched top. Inscribed: " Sacred to the MEMORY of MICHAEL WOOD Esqr. of Tingley House who (meeting with an Accident here when a Young Man, which nearly proved fatal to him) requested to be interred upon the spot. He died Dec 31st 1801 in the 81st Year of his Age "

Carved in the local style of the 1730s.

Listing NGR: SE2716125025

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Legacy System number:: 433743
Legacy System:: LBS

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