Kyle tomb approximately 15 metres west of Cemetery Chapel
Kyle tomb approximately 15 metres west of Cemetery Chapel, Victoria Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201697
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Kyle tomb approximately 15 metres west of Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- Kyle tomb approximately 15 metres west of Cemetery Chapel, Victoria Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201697
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Kyle tomb approximately 15 metres west of Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Kyle tomb approximately 15 metres west of Cemetery Chapel, Victoria Road
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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:
- Kyle tomb approximately 15 metres west of Cemetery Chapel, Victoria Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnard Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 05385 16708
Details
NZ0516NW
770-1/4/229
BARNARD CASTLE
VICTORIA ROAD (south side)
Kyle tomb approximately 15 metres west of Cemetery Chapel
GV
II
Monument to members of the Kyle family, including Jane and Joseph Kyle. c1890. Signed on plinth APPK and ADK (Algernon Percy Prudhoe Kyle and Alexander Dobson Kyle). Sandstone and marble.
Approximately 2 metres high, square plan, on plinth and chamfered base. Angle pilasters support arches with leaf-carved spandrels and scroll brackets to prominent cornice. High acanthus leaf on studded stepped coping supports orb and cross finial. Inscribed marble panels set in arches. Commemorates on east: Jane, wife of Joseph, d.1890 aged 60; Joseph d.1897 aged 71; Gibson their son d.1930 aged 76. On north, a daughter: RW, and the two sons whose initials are signatures, d.1949, 1951 and 1953 aged 86, 84 and 95. Marble eroded on north.
HISTORY: Joseph Kyle was a builder responsible for many buildings in Barnard Castle. His son Gibson moved to Newcastle upon Tyne and became a successful builder and architect there.
Listing NGR: NZ0538516708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388858
- 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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