Murray Memorial and Enclosure Railings
MURRAY MEMORIAL AND ENCLOSURE RAILINGS, ST MATTHEWS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256112
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Murray Memorial and Enclosure Railings
- Statutory Address:
- MURRAY MEMORIAL AND ENCLOSURE RAILINGS, ST MATTHEWS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256112
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Murray Memorial and Enclosure Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- MURRAY MEMORIAL AND ENCLOSURE RAILINGS, ST MATTHEWS 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.
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:
- MURRAY MEMORIAL AND ENCLOSURE RAILINGS, ST MATTHEWS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE2912932333
Details
SE2932
714-1/42/852
09/03/87
LEEDS
ST MATTHEW'S STREET, Holbeck
(East side)
Murray Memorial and enclosure railings
(Formerly Listed as:
ST MATTHEW STREET, Holbeck
(East side (off))
Murray Memorial & railings approx 60m W of Meynell Heights, Cemetery etc)
GV
II
Memorial in railed enclosure. c1830. Commemorates Matthew and
Mary Murray; cast-iron and stone. Rectangular enclosure has
low chamfered stone wall supporting pointed-finialed bars;
stone flags inside.
The central obelisk has 4-step stone and iron podium, iron
plinth block with raised stone panels in iron architraves
bearing inscriptions, and iron obelisk above. The south panel
is inscribed: 'IN A VAULT UNDERNEATH/ ARE DEPOSITED THE
REMAINS OF/ MATTHEW MURRAY/ CIVIL ENGINEER OF HOLBECK/ WHO
DIED THE XX OF FEBRUARY/ MDCCCXXVI, AGED LX YEARS/ ALSO OF
MARY HIS WIFE/ WHO DIED THE XVIII/ OF DECEMBER MDCCCXXXVI/
AGED LXXII YEARS.' The N and W panels commemorate other
members of the Murray family including a grandson, William
Murray Jackson c1882, and a great grandson, Matthew Murray
Jackson who were engineers also.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Matthew Murray was important as a designer
and builder of both stationary and locomotive engines,
supplying Middleton tramway with four of the latter in
1812-13, more than a decade before the opening of Stephenson's
Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825 and the building of
his 'Rocket' in 1829. Murray's foundry was a short distance
away from the cemetery, on Water Lane, now No.99 (qv).
Listing NGR: SE2912932333
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465233
- 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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