GRAVE OF EBENEZER ELLIOT, SITUATED APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

GRAVE OF EBENEZER ELLIOT, SITUATED APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1151163
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:: GRAVE OF EBENEZER ELLIOT, SITUATED APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address:: GRAVE OF EBENEZER ELLIOT, SITUATED APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET

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Date:: 2002-02-10
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1151163
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:: GRAVE OF EBENEZER ELLIOT, SITUATED APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address 1:: GRAVE OF EBENEZER ELLIOT, SITUATED APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET

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.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: GRAVE OF EBENEZER ELLIOT, SITUATED APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET

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

District:: Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 41901 04275

Details

SE40SW DARFIELD CHURCH STREET, (east end)

6/16 Grave of Ebenezer Elliot, situated approximately 40 metres to south- east of south porch of Church of All Saints.

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Raised gravestone. c1849. Sandstone, iron-railed enclosure. Ashlar plinth to large slab with angled top face. Enclosure has spear-headed railings and rounded corner finials. Slab inscribed in bold letters:

'EBENEZER ELLIOT / DIED DECEMBER 1 1849 / AGED 68 YEARS FANNY GARTSIDE / HIS WIFE / DIED DECEMBER 4 1856 / AGED 75 YEARS'.

Ebenezer Elliot was born in Masborough, Rotherham in 1781 and is remembered as the 'Corn Law Rhymer' as a result of his literary works including The Corn Law Rhymes, 1831,which formed part of his political campaign to repeal the corn laws. This and other works vividly reflect the life of the poor at the time.

Listing NGR: SE4190104275

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Legacy System number:: 333644
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.