Wilsons Monument, Ulverston Cemetery

Wilson's Monument is located in Ulverston Cemetery and dates from around 1900. It is said to have been made by the stonemasons Affleck's of Ulverston. The monument is designed as a scale replica of a lighthouse, featuring carved rocks and waves around its base. The tapered shaft is incised to resemble ashlar blocks, a doorway, and window openings. At the top, a glass lantern, which originally enclosed a gas jet, is surrounded by four shafts that support a drum and an openwork cap topped with a ball-and-spike finial. The base is adorned with a carved anchor and chain, along with inscriptions, some in verse, that commemorate Thomas Watkins Wilson MD, who "Fell asleep at 20 minutes to 7 on Friday evening January 15th 1897..." and note, "Every year for 15 years we were wont to spend some months at Conishead Priory."