Thomas Andrew Knight Monument About 15 Yards North East of North East Corner of the Church of St Mary
THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT MONUMENT ABOUT 15 YARDS NORTH EAST OF NORTH EAST CORNER OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081963
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Thomas Andrew Knight Monument About 15 Yards North East of North East Corner of the Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT MONUMENT ABOUT 15 YARDS NORTH EAST OF NORTH EAST CORNER OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081963
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Thomas Andrew Knight Monument About 15 Yards North East of North East Corner of the Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT MONUMENT ABOUT 15 YARDS NORTH EAST OF NORTH EAST CORNER OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT MONUMENT ABOUT 15 YARDS NORTH EAST OF NORTH EAST CORNER OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brinsop and Wormsley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO4276947803
Details
WORMSLEY CP
SO 44 NW
4/80
Thomas Andrew Knight
monument about 15 yards
north-east of north-east
corner of the Church of
St Mary
GV
II
Chest tomb. Dated 1838. Fossilised limestone in austere Neo-Classical style.
Plain base and low hipped chamfered capping. Recessed margins to side and
end panels which are of finer limestone. Incised lettering in Latin on east
side and on west side:
UNDER THIS STONE REST THE REMAINS OF
THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT
OF DOWNTON CASTLE AND WORMSLEY GRANGE IN THIS COUNTY
AND LATE PRESIDENT OF HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON
HE POSSESSED A MIND CAPABLE OF INVESTIGATING
THE MOST SECRET WORKS OF NATURE
A HEART OVERFLOWING WITH TRUE CHARITY TO ALL MANKIND
AND A HAND WHICH NEVER REFUSED ASSISTANCE TO THE DESERVING
OR WITHHELD RELIEF OR CONSOLATION FROM THE POOR
HIS FAMILY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS WILL EVER MOURN THEIR IRREPARABLE LOSS
HIS WIDOW HAS CAUSED THIS MONUMENT TO BE RAISED TO THE MEMORY
OF HER BELOVED HUSBAND WHO DIED IN HIS LXXXth YEAR MAY XIth MDCCCXXXVIII
ALSO OF FRANCES THE WIDOW OF THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT
SHE SURVIVED HER HUSBAND AND TWO OF HER CHILDREN WHO WERE
STRUCK DOWN IN THE PRIME OF LIFE AND USEFULNESS TO MOURN THEIR LOSS
BUT NOT AS ONE WITHOUT HOPE FOR SHE KNEW THAT WHOM GOD LOVETH HE CHASTENED
TO THOSE ABOUT HER SHE WAS KIND AND INDULGENT AND TO THE POOR A LIBERAL
[BENEFECTOR
ON 26TH JULY 1847 IN THE 84th YEAR OF HER AGE HER GENTLE SPIRIT QUITTED
ITS EARTHLY TENEMENT IN HUMBLE HOPE OF A JOYFUL RESURRECTION
(BoE, p 326).
Listing NGR: SO4276947803
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149761
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 326
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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