William Balls monument at Cromer Old Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 2020. A Victorian Monument. 1 related planning application.
William Balls monument at Cromer Old Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- iron-pavement-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 2020
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Headstone. c1881. Carved stone. The headstone has slightly narrowed sides and a curved top with an oval relief panel of a ship in a heavy sea and under lowering clouds. The inscription records William Balls, the husband of Frances Martha Balls, who died aged 25, having fallen from the lugger, Egmere, in the gale of Oct. 29, 1880.
SOURCE. The deceased's granddaughter, Mrs. Joan Witham, has verified the faint inscription and reports that the family tradition is that the relief illustrates the Egmere.
This is a very unusual and fine headstone which not only records fully a young man's death at sea but also shows a relief carving of the ship from which he fell. Forms a group with the listed Chapel and three other listed headstones in the cemetery.
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