Law Monument By Churchyard Entrance To North East Of Church Of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1994. Monument.
Law Monument By Churchyard Entrance To North East Of Church Of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-screen-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1994
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
LICHFIELD
SK1209NW CHURCH STREET 1094-1/6/70 (South side) Law monument by churchyard entrance to north-east of Church of St Michael
GV II
Monument to James Thomas Law, Chancellor of the Diocese and Master of the Hospital of St John, d.1876, and his wife Henrietta Charlotte, d.1866. 1864. By Chancellor Law. Ashlar with some stippled tooling. Rectangular monument on 2 steps has 3 trefoil-headed arches to sides and 2 to ends; drip course, deep frieze with guilloche moulding and top cornice with brattishing; pyramidal ashlar roof and finial with cross in heavy roundel. Arches have no mouldings; square piers have capitals with mouldings to sides; iron rails within arches. 2 gabled slabs inside have inscriptions. Originally had clock illuminated by gas to top roundel, for people using the main road to Burton and the Trent Valley Railway Station. Chancellor Law was an important local benefactor.
Listing NGR: SK1239409627
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