Grave Of Thomas Port, 12 Yards West Of South Porch Of The Parish Church Of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Harrow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 May 1983. Grave.
Grave Of Thomas Port, 12 Yards West Of South Porch Of The Parish Church Of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- distant-sentry-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harrow
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 May 1983
- Type
- Grave
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHURCH HILL 1. 5016 Harrow-on-the-Hill Grave of Thomas Port, 12 yards west of south porch of the Parish Church of St Mary TQ 1587 SW 16/2A
II
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- Slate headstone. Inscribed: "To the memory of THOMAS PORT Son of John Port of Burton-on-Trent, in the County of Staffordshire, Hat Manufacturer, who near this town had both his legs severed from his body by the railway train, with great fortitude he bore a second amputation by the surgeons and died from loss of blood, August 7 1838 Aged 33 years." "Bright rose the morn and vig'rous rose poor Port, Gay on the Train he used his wonted sport, Ere noon arrived his mangled form they bore, with pain distorted and o'erwhelmed with gore, when evening came to close the fatal day, a mutilated corpse the sufferer lay".
Listing NGR: TQ1531187441
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