Ramsden Vault Immediately East Of Crematorium (Not Included) At Borough Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1993. Vault.

Ramsden Vault Immediately East Of Crematorium (Not Included) At Borough Cemetery

WRENN ID
twisted-sill-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1993
Type
Vault
Source
Historic England listing

Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD27SW DEVONSHIRE ROAD 708-1/4/42 (North side (off)) Ramsden vault immediately E of crematorium (not included) at Borough Cemetery

II

Family vault in cemetery. c1886 (Kellett). For the Ramsden family. Red ashlar sandstone. Built into bank; single doorway in buttressed front wall. Gothic Revival style. Oak door with decorative ironwork and scrolled grill. Moulded arch and hoodmould with ram's head keystone; parapet with roll-moulded copings. Flanking buttresses have double-chamfered plinths, offsets and arms of Ramsden and the Borough beneath roll-moulded gablets. Interred here is Sir James Ramsden, founding father of modern Barrow; knighted 1872, d.19.10.1896. Ramsden had the vault built some 10 years before his death. (Kellett J: Barrow's Man of Vision: Ulverston, Cumbria: 1990-: 58).

Listing NGR: SD1999070734

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