Abbey Cemetery Lawton Tomb is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 2010. Tomb.

Abbey Cemetery Lawton Tomb

WRENN ID: winter-frieze-willow
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Bath and North East Somerset
Country: England
Date first listed: 15 October 2010
Type: Tomb
Source: Historic England listing

Description

RALPH ALLEN DRIVE 656-1/0/0 Abbey Cemetery Lawton Tomb

GV II

Tomb of Edwin Lawton (d.1863). Gothic Revival headstone. White marble with mastic inlay. Moulded gabled top to stone with stiff-leaf label-stops. Incised ornament comprises an encircled Greek cross to gable, over a star flanked by quatrefoils, over trefoil arcading. The bronze inscription panel at the base records that the 19 year-old¿s `life was pure and his disposition amiable¿. HISTORY: Lawton lived at St Mary¿s Buildings, Lyncombe. The monument is very unusual because of its technique and embodies the experimentalism of the High Gothic Revival. Located at section II.A.19.20.

Listing NGR: ST758635

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