York Cemetery Plot Number 11847 Gray Monument

The Gray Monument is a family vault located in York Cemetery, designated as plot number 11847. The first burial in this vault was Alderman Jonathan Gray, who died on 11 December 1837. The vault is constructed from stone and is closed by a sloped cover that is inscribed with the names of Jonathan Gray, his widow Mary, who died in 1849, and other family members.

The vault features a crocketed octo-pyramidal canopy supported by cinquefoiled arches, which are adorned with crocketed ogee hoodmoulds. Each corner of the structure has paired angle buttresses that rise into crocketed pinnacles, and the canopy is topped with a crocket finial. Alderman Gray was a founding member and the first Chairman of the York Public Cemetery Company. Although he passed away in Hastings and was buried there, his monument, one of the earliest in York Cemetery, is depicted on an isometric plan from 1842.