York Cemetery Plot Number 11847 Gray Monument is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1997. Vault.
York Cemetery Plot Number 11847 Gray Monument
- WRENN ID
- cold-hinge-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1997
- Type
- Vault
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
YORK
SE65SW CEMETERY ROAD 1112-1/2/153 (East side (off)) York Cemetery: Plot No.11847: Gray Monument
GV II
Family vault of the Gray family. First burial was that of Alderman Jonathan Gray, died 11 December 1837. Stone. Vault is closed by sloped cover inscribed with the names of Jonathan Gray, his widow, Mary, died 1849, and other members of his family. Vault is covered by crocketed octo-pyramidal canopy raised on cinquefoiled arches beneath crocketed ogee hoodmoulds. At each corner are paired angle buttresses which rise into crocketed pinnacles. Canopy is crowned with crocket finial. Alderman Gray was a founder member and first Chairman of the York Public Cemetery Company. Although he died at Hastings where he was buried, his monument erected over the family vault is one of the earliest in the York Cemetery and is depicted on an isometric plan of 1842. (Murray H: This Garden of Death: the History of York Cemetery: York: 1992-: 5, 9).
Listing NGR: SE6117550823
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