Tomb of Edward George Hugh, Earl Grosvenor
TOMB OF EDWARD GEORGE HUGH, EARL GROSVENOR, OLD CHURCHYARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330222
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Tomb of Edward George Hugh, Earl Grosvenor
- Statutory Address:
- TOMB OF EDWARD GEORGE HUGH, EARL GROSVENOR, OLD CHURCHYARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330222
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Tomb of Edward George Hugh, Earl Grosvenor
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOMB OF EDWARD GEORGE HUGH, EARL GROSVENOR, OLD CHURCHYARD
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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:
- TOMB OF EDWARD GEORGE HUGH, EARL GROSVENOR, OLD CHURCHYARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eaton and Eccleston
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 41323 62716
Details
SJ 4162 ECCLESTON C.P. OLD CHURCHYARD
7/127 Tomb of Edward George Hugh, Earl Grosvenor
II
Tomb 1909 by Detmar Blow and Fernand Billerey, sculptor E Madeline (in the Alfred Gilbert tradition - Pevsner and Hubbard). Cast bronze. Openwork enclosure of panels decorated with sheaves, portcullises and coronets surmounted by heavy shaped rail bearing, in black letter characters, "Four corners to my bed/Four angels round my head/One to watch and two to pray/And one to bear my soul away". Inscription: Edward George Hugh Earl Grosvenor, born on the eve of St Hugh 1904 died February 13, 1909. At head three bronze figures, mourning: King Edward 1, St George (with mailed foot on slain dragon's neck) and St Hugh in bishop's robes and mitre. The tomb, of admirable workmanship, epitomises the medievalist ideal of its period (which Blow attempted to realise in his community at Hilles House, Painswick) of the rebirth of a chivalric society.
Listing NGR: SJ4132362716
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55323
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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