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
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196966
Date first listed:
11-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:
Monument to Dean Tait's Children to South of Church of St Michael
Statutory Address:
MONUMENT TO DEAN TAIT'S CHILDREN TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET
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Date:
2002-12-11
Reference:
IOE01/07827/01
Rights:
© Mr Dennis Balmer. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196966
Date first listed:
11-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:
Monument to Dean Tait's Children to South of Church of St Michael
Statutory Address 1:
MONUMENT TO DEAN TAIT'S CHILDREN TO SOUTH 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.

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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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.

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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

Details

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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Legacy System number:
386683
Legacy System:
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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.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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