Memorial to Ely Hargrove in Churchyard 1 Metre South of Church of Saint John the Baptist
MEMORIAL TO ELY HARGROVE IN CHURCHYARD 1 METRE SOUTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE PARSONAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149901
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Memorial to Ely Hargrove in Churchyard 1 Metre South of Church of Saint John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- MEMORIAL TO ELY HARGROVE IN CHURCHYARD 1 METRE SOUTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE PARSONAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149901
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Memorial to Ely Hargrove in Churchyard 1 Metre South of Church of Saint John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEMORIAL TO ELY HARGROVE IN CHURCHYARD 1 METRE SOUTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE PARSONAGE
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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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MEMORIAL TO ELY HARGROVE IN CHURCHYARD 1 METRE SOUTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE PARSONAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knaresborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 34729 57177
Details
SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH THE PARSONAGE (north side)
6/191 Memorial to Ely Hargrove in churchyard 1 metre south of Church of Saint John the Baptist
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Chest tomb. 2nd quarter of C19 with mid C20 restoration. For Ely Hargrove (d1818), Christiana, his wife (d1780), and Mary his daughter. Gritstone. Moulded plinth, octagonal fielded panel to ends, a central octagonal fielded panel flanked by hexagonal fielded panels to sides. Large top slab has roll-moulded edges and deeply-incised lettering. The inscription eulogises Ely Hargrove, "The celebrated historian of this town / and the surrounding country / and one whose / Indefatigable Literary Pursuits / were not more exemplary than his faithful and honourable / discharge of all the relative duties / of domestic and social life: / In him was realized / The rare unity of talent with / The strictest integrity; / And his death ... / Evinced the composure of a superior mind, / with the Christian hope of Eternal peace. / Superior to the ills of Time / His lengthened days in peace he trod, / Till death remov'd to scenes sublime / This servant of the living God; / where now, with feeling more refin'd / He pitys those he left behind. /" The tomb was moved to its present position from outside the west end of the church when the churchyard was landscaped in 1973. Ely Hargrove was born in Halifax in 1741 and moved to Knaresborough in 1762 as a printer and bookseller. For a time he was a librarian at Harrogate. He published 'The History of the Castle, Town, and Forest, of Knaresborough, with Harrogate, and its medicinal springs' in 1775 which had run to 7 editions by 1832 and remains the most quoted source of information on the town. H Speight, Nidderdale, 1894, p 293.
Listing NGR: SE3472957177
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 330765
- Legacy System:
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Sources
Books and journals
Speight, H, Nidderdale, (1894), 293
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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