Monument to Dean Tait's Children to South of Church of St Michael

MONUMENT TO DEAN TAIT'S CHILDREN TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1196966
Date first listed:
11-Apr-1994
Statutory Address:
MONUMENT TO DEAN TAIT'S CHILDREN TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET
monument to Dean Tait's children St Michaels, Carlisle
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Date:
2002-12-11
Reference:
IOE01/07827/01
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1196966
Date first listed:
11-Apr-1994
Statutory Address 1:
MONUMENT TO DEAN TAIT'S CHILDREN TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
MONUMENT TO DEAN TAIT'S CHILDREN TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET

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

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
NY 40181 56980

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CARLISLE

NY4056 CHURCH STREET, Stanwix 671-1/7/99 Monument to Dean Tait's children to south of Church of St Michael

GV II

Churchyard memorial. 1856. Calciferous sandstone ashlar and cast-iron railings. Floret cross on broad chamfered hexagonal plinth inscribed to 5 children of Dean Tait, who died within weeks of each other of smallpox in 1856. Surrounded by low rectangular kerb with speared railings. Stands on the slope of the south ditch of Stanwix Roman Fort. Dean Tait was a prominent Broad Churchman who became Bishop of London (1856) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1868); died 1882.

Listing NGR: NY4018156980

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