TOMB OF EDWARD GEORGE HUGH, EARL GROSVENOR

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:: TOMB OF EDWARD GEORGE HUGH, EARL GROSVENOR, OLD CHURCHYARD

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 55323
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.