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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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
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Official list entry

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

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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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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 390491
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Brooks, C, Mortal Remains, (1989), 176

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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.