RILEY GRAVES AND GRAVEYARD
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1109993
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1984
- Statutory Address:
- RILEY GRAVES AND GRAVEYARD, RILEY LANE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- RILEY GRAVES AND GRAVEYARD, RILEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eyam
- National Park:
- PEAK DISTRICT
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 22855 76384
Details
SK 27 NW PARISH OF EYAM RILEY LANE
4/63 (North Side)
Riley Graves and Graveyard
II
Six gravestones and a table tomb, enclosed by stone wall. 1666. Gritstone and
gritstone rubble. Gritstone rubble wall with rubble copings enclosing six
gravestones and a table tomb, those to east, from south to north, inscribed
'ALICE HANCOCKE BUR AUG 9th 1666', 'ANN HANCOCKE, BUR AUG 10th 1666' and 'WILLIAM
HANCOCKE BUR AUG 17th 1666'. Ones to west, from south to north inscribed 'JOHN
HANCOCKE JUN BUR AUG 3rd 1666', 'ELIZABETH HANCOCKE BUR AUG 3rd 1666' and 'ONER
HANCOCKE BUR AUG 7th 1666'. To south, plain table tomb with sides inscribed
'HORAM,NESCITIS, VIGILATE, ORATE'. Top inscribed 'REMEMBER MAN, AS THOU GOEST
BY, AS THOU ART NOW, EVEN ONCE WAS I, AS I DOE NOW, SO MUST THOU LYE. REMEMBER
MAN THAN THOU MUST DIE'. Memorial to the whole Hancocke family who died of the
plague.
Listing NGR: SK2285576384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 80671
- 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.
End of official listing
