Cooke Family Tomb in Middlewich Cemetery Circa 80 Metres South of Mortuary Chapels
COOKE FAMILY TOMB IN MIDDLEWICH CEMETERY CIRCA 80 METRES SOUTH OF MORTUARY CHAPELS, CHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138792
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cooke Family Tomb in Middlewich Cemetery Circa 80 Metres South of Mortuary Chapels
- Statutory Address:
- COOKE FAMILY TOMB IN MIDDLEWICH CEMETERY CIRCA 80 METRES SOUTH OF MORTUARY CHAPELS, CHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138792
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cooke Family Tomb in Middlewich Cemetery Circa 80 Metres South of Mortuary Chapels
- Statutory Address 1:
- COOKE FAMILY TOMB IN MIDDLEWICH CEMETERY CIRCA 80 METRES SOUTH OF MORTUARY CHAPELS, CHESTER ROAD
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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:
- COOKE FAMILY TOMB IN MIDDLEWICH CEMETERY CIRCA 80 METRES SOUTH OF MORTUARY CHAPELS, CHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Middlewich
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 69877 66479
Details
MIDDLEWICH C.P. CHESTER ROAD SJ 66 NE North Side 1/26 Cooke Family Tomb in Middlewich cemetery circa 80 metres south of Mortuary Chapels. - GV II
Monument, 1869, of stone. Square pier, surmounted by spire, has inscription in gabled arched cusped panel on each side; plain rectangular base stone. Inscriptions read: HERE LIES INTERRED IN ONE COFFIN ALL THAT REMAINED OF THE BODIES OF EDWARD COOKE AGED 40 YEARS, ELIZABETH HIS WIFE AGED 34 YEARS AND THEIR FOUR CHILDREN, ELLEN AGED 7 YEARS, SOPHIA AGED 4 YEARS, EDWARD AGED 2 YEARS AND MARY AGED 6 MONTHS (west); ALSO ELIZABETH SHAW AGED 12 YEARS. ONE ENTIRE FAMILY BURNT TO DEATH AT THE CONFLAGRATION OF BRIERLY HULME FARM HOUSE, IN KINDERTON CUM HULME ON THE MORNING OF SUNDAY THE 24TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 1867 (south); "IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH" (east); ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION AD 1869 (north). The catastrophe is still remembered locally.
Listing NGR: SJ6987766479
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56357
- 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.
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