Gravestone of Wallace Hartley is a Grade II listed building in the Pendle local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 2015. Gravestone. 1 related planning application.
Gravestone of Wallace Hartley
- WRENN ID
- old-rubblework-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pendle
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 2015
- Type
- Gravestone
- Address
- Gravestone of Wallace Hartley, Colne Cemetery, Keighley Road, Colne, BB8 0PH
- OS grid reference
- SD 897 400
- Coordinates
- 53.85642, -2.15759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gravestone, dating from 1912, is made of white granite and commemorates Wallace Hartley, a musician who perished in the sinking of the S.S. Titanic. The monument is approximately 3 metres high and consists of a tall, square pedestal, set on a three-stepped plinth. The pedestal has a deeply moulded cornice and a cyma recta cap upon which a broken column stands. This column is draped with a carved cloth, featuring a tassel. Lead lettering on the front face of the pedestal provides a dedication to Wallace Hartley, noting his death in the Titanic disaster in April 1912 at the age of 33 and his burial on May 18th 1912. A dedication to Uchtred Harold, Conrad Robert, Elizabeth, and Albion Hartley— Wallace's mother, father, and siblings— appears on the left-hand side of the pedestal. The middle step of the plinth features a relief carving of a violin and bow, while the top step depicts an open music book; the left page contains musical notes and the right page displays the words "NEARER MY / GOD TO THEE, / NEARER TO THEE”.
Local climate
Gravestone of Wallace Hartley sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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