WILKINSON TOMB CIRCA 2 METRES SOUTH OF WHITWORTH PARISH CHURCH

WILKINSON TOMB CIRCA 2 METRES SOUTH OF WHITWORTH PARISH CHURCH, STANNER'S LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1365640
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: WILKINSON TOMB CIRCA 2 METRES SOUTH OF WHITWORTH PARISH CHURCH
Statutory Address:: WILKINSON TOMB CIRCA 2 METRES SOUTH OF WHITWORTH PARISH CHURCH, STANNER'S LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1365640
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: WILKINSON TOMB CIRCA 2 METRES SOUTH OF WHITWORTH PARISH CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: WILKINSON TOMB CIRCA 2 METRES SOUTH OF WHITWORTH PARISH CHURCH, STANNER'S LANE

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:: WILKINSON TOMB CIRCA 2 METRES SOUTH OF WHITWORTH PARISH CHURCH, STANNER'S LANE

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Spennymoor
National Grid Reference:: NZ 23560 34705

Details

NZ 23 SW SPENNYMOOR STANNER'S LANE (East side, off) Whitworth

5/73 Wilkinson tomb circa 2 metres south of Whitworth Parish Church GV II

Headstone, c.1727, to 3 sons of John Wilkinson of Old Park (q.v. Old Park Farmhouse). Sandstone ashlar slab, c.0.6 metre high, with fruit and leaves on shaped top edge. Double-scroll-shaped top over inscribed east panel; Thomas and Jerard (sic) aged 7 and 4, deceased May 27 and May 31, and William aged 2, deceased June 21, all in 1727. Reverse has central inscription 'Memento Mori' between recessed panels, the lower with low-relief hour-glass and crossed bones, the upper with deeper relief of 3 children's heads and shoulders emerging from large enveloping leaves, and similar leaves rising between the figures, as if all were growing out of the ground.

Listing NGR: NZ2356034705

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Legacy System number:: 112275
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.