Memorial to Slagg Family to West of Church of St Mary (12 Metres North West of Memorial to John Brooks, QV)

MEMORIAL TO SLAGG FAMILY TO WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY (12 METRES NORTH WEST OF MEMORIAL TO JOHN BROOKS, QV), CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1250837
Date first listed:
23-May-1995
List Entry Name:
Memorial to Slagg Family to West of Church of St Mary (12 Metres North West of Memorial to John Brooks, QV)
Statutory Address:
MEMORIAL TO SLAGG FAMILY TO WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY (12 METRES NORTH WEST OF MEMORIAL TO JOHN BROOKS, QV), CHURCH LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1250837
Date first listed:
23-May-1995
List Entry Name:
Memorial to Slagg Family to West of Church of St Mary (12 Metres North West of Memorial to John Brooks, QV)
Statutory Address 1:
MEMORIAL TO SLAGG FAMILY TO WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY (12 METRES NORTH WEST OF MEMORIAL TO JOHN BROOKS, QV), CHURCH LANE

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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:
MEMORIAL TO SLAGG FAMILY TO WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY (12 METRES NORTH WEST OF MEMORIAL TO JOHN BROOKS, QV), CHURCH LANE

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

District:
Bury (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD8103603678

Details

SD 8103
326-/1/10012


CHURCH LANE
(west side)
Memorial to Slagg family
- to west of Church of St
Mary (12m NW of memorial to John Brooks, qv)


GV II


Tomb chest, c1875-80, by Alfred Waterhouse. Commemorates John Slagg and others of his
family. Dressed sandstone and pink polished granite. Venetian Gothic style. Broad rectangular base,
chest in Gothic style, with 8 polished pink granite colonettes framing 3 yellow sandstone panels
in each side and one at each end, a cavetto frieze with foliation (eroded), and a hipped canopy with
3 bands of weathering and a ridge formed by the shaft of cross which has an overlaid wreath on
its head at the west end. All the panels are sunk cusped diamonds, some containing inscriptions:
that at the east end commemorates John Slagg (d. February 25th 1875); that in the centre of the
north side (worn and now only partly legible) Thomas, infant son of John Slagg; that at the west
end Jane, wife of John Slagg (d.1886), and two on the south side William, his youngest son
(d.1875, aged 34) and Edith, wife of William, (d.1918).


Listing NGR: SD8103603678

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Legacy System number:
433321
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.

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