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Bowness Table Tomb in Churchyard to South of Chancel

A Grade II Listed Building in Bolton, Cumbria

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.6046 / 54°36'16"N

Longitude: -2.5595 / 2°33'34"W

OS Eastings: 363952

OS Northings: 523413

OS Grid: NY639234

Mapcode National: GBR BHK6.N5

Mapcode Global: WH92R.NJCD

Plus Code: 9C6VJC3R+R5

Entry Name: Bowness Table Tomb in Churchyard to South of Chancel

Listing Date: 12 April 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1144901

English Heritage Legacy ID: 73284

ID on this website: 101144901

Location: All Saints' Church, Bolton, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, CA16

County: Cumbria

District: Eden

Civil Parish: Bolton

Built-Up Area: Bolton

Traditional County: Westmorland

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria

Church of England Parish: Bolton All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Carlisle

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Description


NY 62 SW BOLTON


5/46 Bowness Table Tomb in
churchyard to south
of chancel

G.V. II

Table-tomb with square corner supports. Inscription badly worn but small brass
plate affixed near bottom of slab reads "Obit William Bowness December 11th 1767
Aged 82; Mary his Wife June 27th 1763 Aged 73. He gave in his lifetime Fifty
Pounds to the School of Bolton." Table-tomb itself probably that of another
William Bowness; a panel inside the church records that, in his will (dated
February 9th 1709), he left "... an annual rent of ten shillings to be
distributed upon his tomb stone to the poor of Bolton ... on the feast of Saint
Thomas the Apostle yearly for ever."


Listing NGR: NY6395223413

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