Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, Webster tomb

HER Number:
7128

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, Webster tomb

Place:
Bishopwearmouth

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Funerary Site

Site Type: Specific:
Tomb

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Column gravestone and kerbstones. C1890. By Bower and 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. A high symbolically-broken column, with 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 (HER 2799). LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3738

Northing:
5611

Grid Reference:
NZ37385611

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/36