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Webster Tomb 210 Metres West of South East Lodge Bishopwearmouth Cemetery

A Grade II Listed Building in Pallion, Sunderland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8983 / 54°53'53"N

Longitude: -1.4188 / 1°25'7"W

OS Eastings: 437372

OS Northings: 556109

OS Grid: NZ373561

Mapcode National: GBR V66.5P

Mapcode Global: WHD5C.54NQ

Plus Code: 9C6WVHXJ+8F

Entry Name: Webster Tomb 210 Metres West of South East Lodge Bishopwearmouth Cemetery

Listing Date: 17 October 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1207065

English Heritage Legacy ID: 391412

ID on this website: 101207065

Location: Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, High Barnes, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR4

County: Sunderland

Electoral Ward/Division: Pallion

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Sunderland

Traditional County: Durham

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear

Church of England Parish: Bishopwearmouth St Gabriel

Church of England Diocese: Durham

Tagged with: Tomb

Description


SUNDERLAND

NZ35NE CHESTER ROAD 920-1/4/36 (North side (off)) Webster tomb 210 metres west of South-East Lodge Bishopwearmouth Cemetery

GV II

Column gravestone and kerbstones. c1890. By Bower & Florence of Aberdeen to Christopher Maling Webster, 1813-1890, of Pallion Hall, and members of his family. Red granite with bronze letters. Kerb with trefoil moulding and trefoil-gabled dwarf piers encloses large rectangle with square projection on W side. In this projection stands a high symbolically-broken column, with segmental cornice to square pedestal and carved high-relief anchor and rope at base. Long inscription on pedestal records names of Webster family. The first ropeworks for mechanical rope-making were built c1793 in Sunderland by an earlier Webster ((qv) Webster's Ropery, Ropery Road).

Listing NGR: NZ3737256109

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