Grave memorial to George Thwaites and family members is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 2022. Grave memorial.
Grave memorial to George Thwaites and family members
- WRENN ID
- late-timber-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 2022
- Type
- Grave memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grave memorial to George Thwaites, 1855 with later inscriptions to other family members.
MATERIALS: fine-grained sandstone.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial is in the form of a large plinth supporting a high-relief sculpture of a draped mourning female figure leaning against the top of a broken pillar, all placed within a round-arched frame which has a garlanded shield at its apex, the shield with a single five-pointed star. The plinth carries the following inscription: ‘IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF / GEORGE THWAITES / OF THE TOWN INNKEEPER. / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPTR 18TH 1855, / IN THE 44TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. / ALSO ISABELLA, HIS WIFE, / DIED AUGUST 11TH 1882, AGED 73 YEARS. / ALSO GEORGE THWAITES, (IRON MERCHANT) / THEIR YOUNGEST SON, / DIED OCTOBER 28TH 1903, AGED 56 YEARS. / ALSO OUR DEAR MOTHER MARIE HOLT THWAITES, / WIFE OF THE ABOVE GEORGE THWAITES, / WHO DIED JANY 31ST 1934, IN HER 73RD YEAR. / NEARER MY GOD TO THEE’
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