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
SE 11 NE CHURCH LANE Kirkheaton 2/16 Grave slab about 10 yards to east of church, to 17 victims of mill fire at Colne Bridge
G.V. II
Grave slab. 1818. Recently raised on low stone plinth. The stone is inscribed: "In memory of seventeen children whose remains are here interrd. who fell lamentable victims to the destructive element of fire in the cotton manufactury of Mr. T'hos. Atkinson at Colne Bridge, Feb. 14th 1818. This melancholy catastrophe was occasioned in consequence of the formen sending a boy into the lower room with a naked light. The following are the names of the unfortunate sufferers."
The full names of the victims are given, with ages from 9-18 years, and also the names of the parents.
Listing NGR: SE1791017215
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