Singer Sarcophagus North East of Anglican Chapel at Torquay Cemetery
SINGER SARCOPHAGUS NORTH EAST OF ANGLICAN CHAPEL AT TORQUAY CEMETERY, BARTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280071
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Singer Sarcophagus North East of Anglican Chapel at Torquay Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- SINGER SARCOPHAGUS NORTH EAST OF ANGLICAN CHAPEL AT TORQUAY CEMETERY, BARTON ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-02-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/08766/11
- Rights:
- © Mr Robert W Keniston. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280071
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Singer Sarcophagus North East of Anglican Chapel at Torquay Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- SINGER SARCOPHAGUS NORTH EAST OF ANGLICAN CHAPEL AT TORQUAY CEMETERY, BARTON ROAD
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.
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:
- SINGER SARCOPHAGUS NORTH EAST OF ANGLICAN CHAPEL AT TORQUAY CEMETERY, BARTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 90631 66064
Details
TORQUAY
SX96NW BARTON ROAD 885-1/2/30 (West side) Singer sarcophagus north-east of Anglican Chapel at Torquay Cemetery
GV II
Sarcophagus commemorating Isaac Merritt Singer, d.1875, and other members of the family. Signed by the Monumental Company, Kensal Green. White Italian marble on a polished grey granite plinth with steps and enclosed by a fence of polished grey granite posts with chains slung between. Renaissance style. The sarcophagus has corbelled diagonal buttresses and a coped oversailing lid. Lavish carving includes passion flowers, corn stalks and vines. Inscription panels on all four sides with foliage-carved frames. A sumptuous monument to the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, who financed the building of Oldway in Paignton (qv). Reported to have cost 'several thousand pounds'. (Brooks, Chris: Mortal Remains: 1989-: P.176).
Listing NGR: SX9063166064
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390491
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brooks, C, Mortal Remains, (1989), 176
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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