MONUMENT TO U LARSING SOUTH EAST OF THACKERAY CENOTAPH IN OVERLEIGH CEMETERY

MONUMENT TO U LARSING SOUTH EAST OF THACKERAY CENOTAPH IN OVERLEIGH CEMETERY, OVERLEIGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375891
Date first listed:: 23-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT TO U LARSING SOUTH EAST OF THACKERAY CENOTAPH IN OVERLEIGH CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: MONUMENT TO U LARSING SOUTH EAST OF THACKERAY CENOTAPH IN OVERLEIGH CEMETERY, OVERLEIGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375891
Date first listed:: 23-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT TO U LARSING SOUTH EAST OF THACKERAY CENOTAPH IN OVERLEIGH CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: MONUMENT TO U LARSING SOUTH EAST OF THACKERAY CENOTAPH IN OVERLEIGH CEMETERY, OVERLEIGH ROAD

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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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Statutory Address:: MONUMENT TO U LARSING SOUTH EAST OF THACKERAY CENOTAPH IN OVERLEIGH CEMETERY, OVERLEIGH ROAD

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District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ4031765336

Details

SJ4065 1932-1/8/214

CHESTER CITY (EM) OVERLEIGH ROAD (North side (off)) Monument to U Larsing SE of Thackeray Cenotaph in Overleigh Cemetery II

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Plinth over tomb of U Larsing Bengal missionary. 1863. Stone. The plinth is inscribed "TO U LARSING ONE OF THE FIRST FRUITS OF THE WELSH MISSIONARY SOCIETY ON THE KHASSIA HILLS, BENGAL WHERE HE LABOURED SEVERAL YEARS AS AN EVANGELIST. IN 1861 HE VISITED THIS COUNTRY AND ENDEARED HIMSELF TO THOUSANDS IN ENGLAND AND WALES : WHEN ABOUT TO RETURN TO HIS NATIVE LAND

HIS SAVIOUR CALLED HIM TO HIMSELF AND HE ENTERED TO THE JOY OF HIS LORD AT CAERGWRLE AUGUST 24 1863". On the opposite side of the plinth the inscription is in Welsh. U may be an initial, but is also a Burmese title.

Listing NGR: SJ 40317 65336

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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.