Walker Monument Approximately 20 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Andrew
WALKER MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290442
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Walker Monument Approximately 20 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- WALKER MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290442
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Jun-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Walker Monument Approximately 20 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALKER MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD
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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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WALKER MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- South Ribble (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 54136 21564
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 05/10/2012
SD 52 SW
119/8/20
LEYLAND
CHURCH ROAD
Walker monument approx. 20 metres south of chancel of Church of St Andrew
(Formerly listed as Raised slab over grave c.20 metres south of chancel of Church of St.Andrew)
GV II*
Raised monumental slab. Probably 1588. Commemorates William Walker, Clerk of the Parish of Leyland (d.1588). Sandstone. Rectangular slab on low stone base. The surface bears a very unusual life-sized primitive figure drawn with incised line of flowing simplicity, and the margin has a continuous inscription round all 4 sides, beginning at the head:
HEARE LIETH THE BODIE OF
WILLIAM WALKER BATCHELOROF MUSICKE OF THIS
PARISHE OF LEYLAND FOR
THE SPACE OF XXV YEARES AND DYED THE XX APRIL 1588
(the name "Walker" now worn and almost illegible). There are also inscriptions above the head of the figure:
Musica Mentis Medicina
Maestae
(translation: "Music the Medicine of a Sad Soul"); to the left
of the head the initials:
B
R:C
and below the feet another Latin inscription:
Nulla die
sine Linea
(approximate translation: "No day without a purpose"); and left
of this the initials:
W.F.
Esq
(probably William Farington).
HISTORY: may have connection with Shakespeare, since Shakespeare as a young man is now thought to have been in the households of the Hoghton family of Lea and Hoghton and the Hesketh family of Rufford during the 1580s (ref. E.A.J.Honigman Shakespeare: the 'lost years', Manchester 1985); William Farington of Worden has
been suggested as the model for the character of Malvolio in Twelfth Night; and the first line of this play ("If music be the food of love, play on") clearly echoes the first Latin inscription quoted above. NOTE: at the time of this inspection (June 1992), the monument was found to have been seriously disturbed (though not defaced), the slab turned at right angles and pushed off its base.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357926
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Honingham, E A J, Shakespeare The Lost Years, (1985)
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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