COLLIERY EXPLOSION MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF PORCH TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS AND ST JAMES

COLLIERY EXPLOSION MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF PORCH TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS AND ST JAMES, BANK END ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1315056
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: COLLIERY EXPLOSION MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF PORCH TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS AND ST JAMES
Statutory Address:: COLLIERY EXPLOSION MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF PORCH TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS AND ST JAMES, BANK END ROAD

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Date:: 2004-10-01
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1315056
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: COLLIERY EXPLOSION MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF PORCH TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS AND ST JAMES
Statutory Address 1:: COLLIERY EXPLOSION MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF PORCH TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS AND ST JAMES, BANK END 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:: COLLIERY EXPLOSION MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF PORCH TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS AND ST JAMES, BANK END ROAD

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

District:: Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE3575504360

Details

SE30SE 2/70

WORSBROUGH BANK END ROAD (north side) Colliery explosion monument approximately 5 metres to south of porch to Church of St. Thomas and St. James

GV II

Monument. c1875. Ashlar sandstone, cast-iron railings. Square enclosure with railings rising to north; 4-step plinth to square-sectioned monument. Enclosure: square corner posts, railing bars infilled with floral panels with masks, fleur-de-lys finials. Monument: chamfered base, die with panel on south side inscribed:

"ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION TO THE MEMORY OF THE 143 MEN AND BOYS WHO WERE KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION IN SWAITHE MAIN COLLIERY ON DECEMBER 6th 1875 'IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH' "

Cornice beneath block having granite corner shafts and panels depicting tools and colliery scene. Scaled dome with rounded panels carved with grapes, grain, passion flowers and primulas. Apex cross.

Listing NGR: SE3575504360

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Legacy System number:: 333946
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.