Alcock Monument In Centre Of Manchester Southern Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Cemetery monument.
Alcock Monument In Centre Of Manchester Southern Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- veiled-stronghold-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1994
- Type
- Cemetery monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
MANCHESTER
SJ89SW BARLOW MOOR ROAD, Barlow Moor 698-1/8/501 (North East side) Alcock monument in centre of Manchester Southern Cemetery
GV II
Cemetery monument. c.1920. Commemorates Flight Commander Sir John W.Alcock K.B.E., D.S.C.(d.1919), pilot of the first aircraft to make a non-stop trans-Atlantic flight. White marble. In the form of a tall Celtic cross on a pedestal, within a rectangular enclosure which also contains a marble rock with a propellor. The cross has a stepped base with raised lettering "ALCOCK" on the 2nd step; lettered pedestal recording the death in an accident while flying a Viking flying boat from Weybridge to the Paris Aircraft Exhibition, December 18th 1919; and richly-carved shaft and head. The low surround to the enclosure has lettering recording details of the transatlantic flight in a Vickers Vimy biplane from St Johns Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland, 14th-15th June 1919 (1890 miles in 15 hours 57 minutes), for which Alcock was knighted on 21st June 1919 by H.M. King George V.
Listing NGR: SJ8283092461
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