Tomb Of Edward George Hugh, Earl Grosvenor is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Tomb.
Tomb Of Edward George Hugh, Earl Grosvenor
- WRENN ID
- gentle-render-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1983
- Type
- Tomb
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 4162 ECCLESTON C.P. OLD CHURCHYARD
7/127 Tomb of Edward George Hugh, Earl Grosvenor
II
Tomb 1909 by Detmar Blow and Fernand Billerey, sculptor E Madeline (in the Alfred Gilbert tradition - Pevsner and Hubbard). Cast bronze. Openwork enclosure of panels decorated with sheaves, portcullises and coronets surmounted by heavy shaped rail bearing, in black letter characters, "Four corners to my bed/Four angels round my head/One to watch and two to pray/And one to bear my soul away". Inscription: Edward George Hugh Earl Grosvenor, born on the eve of St Hugh 1904 died February 13, 1909. At head three bronze figures, mourning: King Edward 1, St George (with mailed foot on slain dragon's neck) and St Hugh in bishop's robes and mitre. The tomb, of admirable workmanship, epitomises the medievalist ideal of its period (which Blow attempted to realise in his community at Hilles House, Painswick) of the rebirth of a chivalric society.
Listing NGR: SJ4132362716
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