Law Monument By Churchyard Entrance to North East of Church of St Michael
LAW MONUMENT BY CHURCHYARD ENTRANCE TO NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187745
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Law Monument By Churchyard Entrance to North East of Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- LAW MONUMENT BY CHURCHYARD ENTRANCE TO NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187745
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Law Monument By Churchyard Entrance to North East of Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAW MONUMENT BY CHURCHYARD ENTRANCE TO NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET
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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.
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:
- LAW MONUMENT BY CHURCHYARD ENTRANCE TO NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lichfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 12394 09627
Details
LICHFIELD
SK1209NW CHURCH STREET 1094-1/6/70 (South side) Law monument by churchyard entrance to north-east of Church of St Michael
GV II
Monument to James Thomas Law, Chancellor of the Diocese and Master of the Hospital of St John, d.1876, and his wife Henrietta Charlotte, d.1866. 1864. By Chancellor Law. Ashlar with some stippled tooling. Rectangular monument on 2 steps has 3 trefoil-headed arches to sides and 2 to ends; drip course, deep frieze with guilloche moulding and top cornice with brattishing; pyramidal ashlar roof and finial with cross in heavy roundel. Arches have no mouldings; square piers have capitals with mouldings to sides; iron rails within arches. 2 gabled slabs inside have inscriptions. Originally had clock illuminated by gas to top roundel, for people using the main road to Burton and the Trent Valley Railway Station. Chancellor Law was an important local benefactor.
Listing NGR: SK1239409627
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382622
- 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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