PAIR OF HEADSTONES 1 METRE EAST OF CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT

PAIR OF HEADSTONES 1 METRE EAST OF CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, CHURCH 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:: 1041398
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF HEADSTONES 1 METRE EAST OF CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT
Statutory Address:: PAIR OF HEADSTONES 1 METRE EAST OF CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, CHURCH LANE

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

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:: 2001-03-03
Reference:: IOE01/01907/07
Rights:: © Mr Erik Borg. 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:: 1041398
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF HEADSTONES 1 METRE EAST OF CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT
Statutory Address 1:: PAIR OF HEADSTONES 1 METRE EAST OF CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, CHURCH 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:: PAIR OF HEADSTONES 1 METRE EAST OF CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, CHURCH LANE

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

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: West Bedlington
National Grid Reference:: NZ 26070 81812

Details

BEDLINGTON CHURCH LANE NZ 2681 NW (East side) Bedlington

9/55 Pair of heads tones 1 metre east of Church of St. Cuthbert GV II

Headstones, C19. Sandstone. Southern stone bears inscription only: Here lie the remains of Elizabeth Burdon Wife of William Burdon of Hartford in this Parish Of this lady it may be truly said that she possessed more virtues and had fewer faults than usually falls to the share of her sex for the distinguishing features of her character were prudence and good sense tho free from the excess of passion and sentiment she was spirited, tho gentle and humane a dutiful wife, a tender mother, and a kind friend generous, liberal and beneficent On the whole, it is impossible to name a woman who without possessing a cultivated mind lived and diedmore agreeably to reason or left a deeper sense of her loss, among those who had the happiness to know her She first felt the attack of consumption on the 5th/ of October 1805 and lingered with composed resignation till the 17th of September 1806 when she fell on the 5th day of a severe agony aged 31 years esteemed beloved regretted

Northern stone has medallion with inverted boat and inscription to Sarah, wife of Peter Stavers, d. 1863, and her son Wilkinson who was drowned along with his wife Hannah and the entire crew of the Brig Robert and Mary of Blyth, in a heavy storm in the Cattegat, 1864.

Listing NGR: NZ2607081812

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 235926
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.