TOMB OF CHARLES BOOTH, APPROX.12M. NORTH OF NAVE OF THE CHURCH OF ST ANDREW

TOMB OF CHARLES BOOTH, APPROX.12M. NORTH OF NAVE OF THE CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1067843
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-2002
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF CHARLES BOOTH, APPROX.12M. NORTH OF NAVE OF THE CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address:: TOMB OF CHARLES BOOTH, APPROX.12M. NORTH OF NAVE OF THE CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1067843
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-2002
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF CHARLES BOOTH, APPROX.12M. NORTH OF NAVE OF THE CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB OF CHARLES BOOTH, APPROX.12M. NORTH OF NAVE OF THE CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, MAIN STREET

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TOMB OF CHARLES BOOTH, APPROX.12M. NORTH OF NAVE OF THE CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, MAIN STREET

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 42661 17459

Details

52/0/10011 MAIN STREET 12-SEP-02 Thringstone Tomb of Charles Booth, approx.12m. nor th of nave of the Church of St Andrew

GV II

Monument. Ashlar. Dated 1916. Low rectangular slab tomb with slightly curving top is set on stepped base. Inlaid inscriptions to Charles Booth, 1840-1916, and his wife, Mary Catherine, 1847-1939. Charles Booth was the notable researcher and writer, whose important statistical analysis of the state of the London poor provided the basis for the Welfare State. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1904. His wife was a granddaughter of Zachary Macaulay, who worked for the abolition of the slave trade, and a niece of Lord Macaulay, the historian. This monument forms a group with the nearby Church of St. Andrew (qv).

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Legacy System number:: 489804
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.