JOHN METCALF MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES FROM EAST END OF NORTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

JOHN METCALF MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES FROM EAST END OF NORTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HARROGATE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1149982
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: JOHN METCALF MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES FROM EAST END OF NORTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address:: JOHN METCALF MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES FROM EAST END OF NORTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HARROGATE ROAD

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Date:: 2001-08-31
Reference:: IOE01/05032/27
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1149982
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: JOHN METCALF MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES FROM EAST END OF NORTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address 1:: JOHN METCALF MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES FROM EAST END OF NORTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HARROGATE ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Statutory Address:: JOHN METCALF MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES FROM EAST END OF NORTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HARROGATE ROAD

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Spofforth with Stockeld
National Grid Reference:: SE 36484 51104

Details

SE 35 SE SPOFFORTH WITH STOCKELD HARROGATE ROAD

3/77 John Metcalf memorial approximately 15 metres from east end of north aisle of Church of All Saints

GV II

Headstone. John Metcalf died 1810. Millstone grit. Approximately 1 metre high, rectangular with shaped top. The inscription records his life and achievements in 16 lines of poetry, and concludes with the information that he died on the 26th of April 1810 in the 93rd year of his age. The inscription is signed 'Jno A. Hilton'. John Metcalf was a road surveyor and worked throughout Yorkshire between 1745 and 1792. He was blinded by smallpox at the age of 6 and became a celebrity throughout the county. He was known as 'Blind Jack of Knaresborough', and his portrait hangs in the council offices in Knaresborough. Yorkshire Life, February 1956, p 31.

Listing NGR: SE3648451104

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Legacy System number:: 330545
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Yorkshire Life' in Yorkshire Life: February, (1956), 31

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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.