MEMORIAL TO FAIRBURN FAMILY TO WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY (12 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF MEMORIAL TO JOHN BROOKS

MEMORIAL TO FAIRBURN FAMILY TO WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY (12 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF MEMORIAL TO JOHN BROOKS, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263060
Date first listed:: 22-May-1995
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL TO FAIRBURN FAMILY TO WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY (12 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF MEMORIAL TO JOHN BROOKS
Statutory Address:: MEMORIAL TO FAIRBURN FAMILY TO WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY (12 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF MEMORIAL TO JOHN BROOKS, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263060
Date first listed:: 22-May-1995
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL TO FAIRBURN FAMILY TO WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY (12 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF MEMORIAL TO JOHN BROOKS
Statutory Address 1:: MEMORIAL TO FAIRBURN FAMILY TO WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY (12 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF MEMORIAL TO JOHN BROOKS, CHURCH LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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 FAIRBURN FAMILY TO WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY (12 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF MEMORIAL TO JOHN BROOKS, 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:: SD8103803655

Details

SD 8103 CHURCH LANE (west side) 326-/1/10013

Memorial to Fairbairn family - to west of Church of St Mary (12m SSW of memorial to John Brooks, qv)

GV II

Tomb chest, either c.1859-60 or c.1874-5. Commemorates Peter, son of William Fairbairn (d.1859); John, eldest son of William Fairbairn (d.1867); George, 4th son of William Fairbairn (d.1868); Sir William Fairbairn, L.L.D., First baronet of Ardwick (d.1874) and Dame Dorothy Fairbairn his wife (d.1882). Polished grey granite on sandstone base. Broad rectangular base (with remains of feet of former cast-iron railings), plain sandstone plinth, and shallow chest of elegant design with deep cavetto sides and shallow hipped upper surface. the north slope of this bears the inscriptions to the sons, and the south side to Sir William and Dame Dorothy Fairbairn. History: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874), the eminent engineer, born at Kelso, the son of a farm servant, began his engineering experience at coal mining sites in the north-east of England, came to Manchester and formed partnership with James Lillie in 1817 making machinery for cotton mills, member of Institute of Civil Engineers 1830, subsequently one of the pre-eminent bridge-building and engineering consultants of the mid-C19. [Dictionary of National Biography (1900) vol. 18, pp124-5].

Listing NGR: SD8103803655

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Concise Dictionary of National Biography, (1939), 124-5

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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.