Singer Sarcophagus North East Of Anglican Chapel At Torquay Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. Sarcophagus.
Singer Sarcophagus North East Of Anglican Chapel At Torquay Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- last-tallow-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- Sarcophagus
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TORQUAY
SX96NW BARTON ROAD 885-1/2/30 (West side) Singer sarcophagus north-east of Anglican Chapel at Torquay Cemetery
GV II
Sarcophagus commemorating Isaac Merritt Singer, d.1875, and other members of the family. Signed by the Monumental Company, Kensal Green. White Italian marble on a polished grey granite plinth with steps and enclosed by a fence of polished grey granite posts with chains slung between. Renaissance style. The sarcophagus has corbelled diagonal buttresses and a coped oversailing lid. Lavish carving includes passion flowers, corn stalks and vines. Inscription panels on all four sides with foliage-carved frames. A sumptuous monument to the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, who financed the building of Oldway in Paignton (qv). Reported to have cost 'several thousand pounds'. (Brooks, Chris: Mortal Remains: 1989-: P.176).
Listing NGR: SX9063166064
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