Burial Enclosure Approximately 10 Metres To North East Of Wentworth Old Church is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1985. Burial enclosure.
Burial Enclosure Approximately 10 Metres To North East Of Wentworth Old Church
- WRENN ID
- lunar-wicket-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rotherham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1985
- Type
- Burial enclosure
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SK39NE WENTWORTH CHURCH DRIVE (north side, off)
4/63 Burial enclosure approximately 10 metres to north-east of Wentworth Old Church
GV II
Burial enclosure. 1824. Erected by William Wentworth Fitzwilliam and son Charles William. Ashlar plinth and vault cover with cast-iron railed enclosure. Rectangular. Large slab rises to chamfered 2-stone vault cover. Railings have corner and intermediate piers each of square section with lozenge-shaped panels to openwork shaft. Moulded caps now mostly damaged or replaced by concrete facsimiles. Fleur-de-lys finials to lower and upper rails. Running inscription on upper rail reads:
'THIS PLACE OF BURIAL WAS / CONSTRUCTED A.D. MDCCCXXIV.BY / WILLIAM EARL FITZWILLIAM / AND CHARLES WILLIAM / VISCOUNT MILTON, FOR THE / WENTWORTH BRANCH OF THEIR / DESCENDANTS, IN THE HOPE THAT / THEY MAY PASS THROUGH / THINGS TEMPORAL, THAT THEY / LOSE NOT THE THINGS ETERNAL'.
Subterranean vault not inspected. Private access via ashlar-lined tunnel from Wentworth Old Church (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SK3839298300
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