Monument To Joseph Roberts, Between Cemetery Chapels is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1984. A Victorian Monument.
Monument To Joseph Roberts, Between Cemetery Chapels
- WRENN ID
- tenth-marble-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1984
- Type
- Monument
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This monument, erected in 1866, commemorates Joseph Roberts of Egremont, who died in 1861 and was a local benefactor. It is located between the cemetery chapels and features a masons' signature on the east side of the plinth reading "W & J EILBECK EGREMONT." The monument is made of stone and is designed in a decorated Gothic style, standing approximately 10 feet tall and square in plan. It has a moulded plinth set on two steps, with clustered shafts and foliate capitals at each corner. Each face of the monument displays an inscription on a cusped panel. The gabled top is adorned with crockets and apex crosses, and it is surmounted by an octagonal structure supported by columns, topped with a tapered finial featuring an apex cross.
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