Joseph Thompson Headstone is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1985. Monument.

Joseph Thompson Headstone

WRENN ID
hollow-rubblework-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1985
Type
Monument
Source
Historic England listing

Description

NY 02 NW WORKINGTON HEADSTONE LANE (North side) High Harrington

6/47 Joseph Thompson Headstone

II

Roadside headstone. Calciferous sandstone slab with rounded top inscribed JOSEPH THOMPSON MAY HERE BE FOUND, WHO WOULD NOT LY IN CONSECRATED GROUND, DIED MAY YE 31 1745, AGED 63 WHEN HE WAS ALIVE. After an argument with the Vicar of Harrington Church, Thompson vowed never to set foot in the church again and on his death-bed requested to be buried at midnight in the middle of Scaw Moor. When the land was enclosed and the headstone proved an obstacle, it was moved to its present roadside position. See William Whellan, History of Cumberland & Westmorland, 1860, 483.

Listing NGR: NY0097225902

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