Graveslab About 10 Yards To East Of Church, To 17 Victims Of Mill Fire At Colne Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. A Victorian Grave slab.
Graveslab About 10 Yards To East Of Church, To 17 Victims Of Mill Fire At Colne Bridge
- WRENN ID
- brooding-arch-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Grave slab
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a grave slab from 1818, located about 10 yards east of the church in Kirkheaton. It has recently been raised on a low stone plinth. The stone is inscribed in memory of seventeen children whose remains are interred here, who tragically lost their lives in a fire at the cotton mill owned by Mr. Thomas Atkinson at Colne Bridge on February 14, 1818. The inscription explains that the fire was caused when a boy was sent into the lower room with a naked light. The names of the victims, aged between 9 and 18 years, along with their parents' names, are also listed on the slab.
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