Morris Memorial Approximately 20 Metres South East Of Chancel Of Church Of St George is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1989. Memorial. 1 related planning application.
Morris Memorial Approximately 20 Metres South East Of Chancel Of Church Of St George
- WRENN ID
- pitched-panel-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1989
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
KELMSCOTT Morris memorial approx. 20m SE SU2499-2599 10/67 of chancel of Church of St. George (Formerly listed as Tomb of William Morris) GV II
Churchyard memorial. 1896 by Philip Webb. Limestone. Curved ridge-shaped stone supported by stone blocks to each end. Inscriptions on south side to William Morris (1834-96) and Jane Morris (1839-1914) and on north side to their daughters, Jane Alice Morris (1861-1935) and May Morris (1862-1938). It has been suggested that the design of the tomb is based on the ridge-back type of Viking funerary monument, but Webb may have derived his inspiration from a C17 gable-ended tomb also in Kelmscott churchyard (q.v. under Ford memorial, C18 chest tomb and two C17 monuments approximately 2 to 5 metres south of south transept of Church of St. George). (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p666; A.R. Dufty: Kelmscott, An Illustrated Guide (London, The Society of Antiquaries, 1984), pp30, 34) [2362]
Listing NGR: SU2493999349
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