Taylor Monument in the Southern Part of Eastern Section of the Cemetery

TAYLOR MONUMENT IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF EASTERN SECTION OF THE CEMETERY, OUSEBANK STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380123
Date first listed:
17-Dec-2000
List Entry Name:
Taylor Monument in the Southern Part of Eastern Section of the Cemetery
Statutory Address:
TAYLOR MONUMENT IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF EASTERN SECTION OF THE CEMETERY, OUSEBANK STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380123
Date first listed:
17-Dec-2000
List Entry Name:
Taylor Monument in the Southern Part of Eastern Section of the Cemetery
Statutory Address 1:
TAYLOR MONUMENT IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF EASTERN SECTION OF THE CEMETERY, OUSEBANK STREET

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
TAYLOR MONUMENT IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF EASTERN SECTION OF THE CEMETERY, OUSEBANK STREET

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

District:
Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Newport Pagnell
National Grid Reference:
SP 87894 43979

Details

NEWPORT PAGNELL

SP 8743 OUSEBANK STREET
645/1/10031 (East side)
17-DEC-00 Taylor Monument in the southern part o
f eastern section of the Cemetery

II

Monument. c.1900 for members of the Taylor family. Probably built by Wilford Bros, Builders and Funeral directors, of Union Street, Newport Pagnell. Built of brick, faced with Bath oolitic limestone in ashlar work, and carrying 5 copper/bronze plaques and two wooden tablets. The monument is in the form of an exedra backing into the terraced slope. Wide curved arms with terminal dentilled and corniced pilasters, rounding to a central arched aedicule between similar pilasters; a round-headed arch set in a channel-rusticated surround with an open modillion pediment, and a cushioned shield above the arch bearing the legend MORS JANVA VITAE. The curved wings have a continuous cornice and a seat, between which the plain ashlar walling has raised carved attenuated trees with roots and foliage in an Art-Nouveau style rising as fictive supports to the modillion cornice. Between each tree there are plaques with the names of members of two generations of the family, the earliest, of cast bronze, to Thomas Taylor (1832-1900), by Blunt and Wray of Clerkenwell, the others of sheet bronze making a total of seven. The floor is paved within the tangent of the outer piers. Lead screw mountings on the cornice suggest a missing metal cresting.

The Taylor family was were eminent in the town, as chemists, mustard and mineral water manufacturers.

Survey and analysis prepared by A C Dietz de Broise, 1997.


Listing NGR: SP8789443979

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Legacy System number:
479619
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.

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