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MEMORIAL AND GRAVE OF ETHEL PRESTON AT NGR 2673 3905 IN LAWNSWOOD CEMETERY

MEMORIAL AND GRAVE OF ETHEL PRESTON AT NGR 2673 3905 IN LAWNSWOOD CEMETERY, OTLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375322
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL AND GRAVE OF ETHEL PRESTON AT NGR 2673 3905 IN LAWNSWOOD CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: MEMORIAL AND GRAVE OF ETHEL PRESTON AT NGR 2673 3905 IN LAWNSWOOD CEMETERY, OTLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375322
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL AND GRAVE OF ETHEL PRESTON AT NGR 2673 3905 IN LAWNSWOOD CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: MEMORIAL AND GRAVE OF ETHEL PRESTON AT NGR 2673 3905 IN LAWNSWOOD CEMETERY, OTLEY 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:: MEMORIAL AND GRAVE OF ETHEL PRESTON AT NGR 2673 3905 IN LAWNSWOOD CEMETERY, OTLEY ROAD

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

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE2673039055

Details

SE23NE 714-1/6/942

LEEDS OTLEY ROAD, Lawnswood (West side (off)) Memorial and grave of Ethel Preston at NGR 2673 3905 in Lawnswood Cemetery

GV II

Memorial. 1911. Italian marble. Statue (life-size) standing under a Classical porch with composite columns supporting entablature, cornice and balustraded parapet; black marble panelled doors. The subject is represented standing outside the house holding a bunch of flowers. Inscriptions: on right plinth: 'TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF/ ETHEL/ WIFE OF WALTER PRESTON/ OF THE GRANGE BEESTON/ DIED MARCH 24th 1911 AGED 50 YEARS'; on left plinth: 'TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF/ WALTER/ HUSBAND OF EMILY AND THE LATE ETHEL PRESTON/ DIED OCT 24th 1930'. Reputed to be a replica of the entrance to The Grange, Beeston (demolished), the doors are slightly open. (Letter in Country Life,18.10.73, p1156; The Guardian 03.06.1971, p7/3-5).

Listing NGR: SE2673039055

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Legacy System number:: 466217
Legacy System:: LBS

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'The Guardian' in 3 June, (1971), 7, 3-5
'Country Life' in 18 October, (1973), 1156

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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.