TOMB OF JOHN NELSON IN YARD OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

TOMB OF JOHN NELSON IN YARD OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, KIRKGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313698
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF JOHN NELSON IN YARD OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: TOMB OF JOHN NELSON IN YARD OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, KIRKGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313698
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF JOHN NELSON IN YARD OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB OF JOHN NELSON IN YARD OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, KIRKGATE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TOMB OF JOHN NELSON IN YARD OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, KIRKGATE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 21875 26158

Details

SE 22 NW BATLEY MB KIRKGATE BIRSTALL

2/31 Tomb of John Nelson in Yard of Church of St Peter

G.V. II

Chest tomb of John Nelson. Dated 1774. Stone with simple panel sides and inscription to John Nelson and his wife. Also inscribed is poem: While we on Earth had our abode, We both agre'd to serve the Lord; And he was pleas'd as you may see, By Death, not long us parted be, Then he required the breath he gave Untill again he us restore A Life to live and Die no more.

Apparently added later is further inscription:

"John Nelson was the coadjutor of John Wesley, and the pioneer of Methodism in Yorkshire".

Listing NGR: SE2187526158

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Legacy System number:: 340936
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.