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Latitude: 53.1817 / 53°10'54"N
Longitude: -2.8946 / 2°53'40"W
OS Eastings: 340314
OS Northings: 365327
OS Grid: SJ403653
Mapcode National: GBR 79.3KF1
Mapcode Global: WH88F.H9V6
Plus Code: 9C5V54J4+M5
Entry Name: Monument to Richard Knill, South of U Larsing Monument in Overleigh Cemetery
Listing Date: 23 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375889
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469868
ID on this website: 101375889
Location: General Cemetery, Handbridge, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH4
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Handbridge Park
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester St Mary without the Walls
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Monument
SJ4065
1932-1/8/215
CHESTER CITY (EM)
OVERLEIGH ROAD
(North side (off))
Monument to Richard Knill, S of U Larsing Monument in Overleigh Cemetery
II
GV
Monument to Rev. Richard Knill and his wife Sarah. c1857.
Freestone; plinth with inscribed arched panels, octagonal
column and spire finial; overall height approx 3m.
The plinth front is inscribed "IN MEMORY OF THE REVD RICHARD
KNILL BORN 14TH APRIL 1787 AT BRAUNTON DEVON, LABOURED THREE
YEARS AS A MISSIONARY IN INDIA AND FIFTEEN IN RUSSIA, PLEADED
THE CAUSE OF MISSIONS THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,
SUSTAINED THE PASTORAL OFFICE SIX YEARS AT WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE,
WAS NINE YEARS PASTOR OF THE INDEPENDENT CHURCH QUEEN STREET
IN THIS CITY AND DIED 2ND JANUARY 1857".
On the left face "BRETHREN THE HEATHEN ARE PERISHING." "SHALL
WE LET THEM PERISH?" "GOD FORBID !" - RICHARD KNILL.
On the right face "AUTHOR OF THE FOLLOWING TRACTS ETC.: DYING
THIEF AND DYING SAVIOUR; THE FALSE HOPE; THE RUSSIAN NURSE;
THE FARMER AND HIS FAMILY; INFLUENCE OF PIOUS WOMEN; WHOLE
FAMILY IN HEAVEN...." and others.
On the back face "SARAH HIS WIFE 1796 - MAY 1870".
Listing NGR: SJ 403214 65327
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