Description

SE 37 NE BALDERSBY WIDE HOWE LANE (north side) Baldersby St James 3/25 Group of 3 gravestones approximately 18 metres to east of Church of St James -

GV II

Group of 3 graves of Mary Lane, Sidney Leveson Lane and Viscount Downe to east of church. Mid C19 and early C20. Stone. 2 curbed graves with headstones and 1 coped grave lid. Grave to left commemorating Sidney Leveson Lane, died 1910, has headstone in form of round head cross with fleurée cross in relief on east face. Central grave commemorating Mary Isabel, wife of 7th Viscount Downe and afterwards the wife of Sidney Leveson Lane, has headstone of round-headed cross with fleurée cross in relief on east face. Grave lid to right commemorates Henry, 7th Viscount Downe, date of death illegible, and has Latin cross fleurée in relief. The crosses on the gravestones are similar to that on the graveyard cross (qv) and to that over the church door (qv). Baldersby St James was the last of a series of church groups built by the 7th Viscount Downe 1847-57. He died before St James was completed and his remains were transfered from Topcliffe church when the churchyard was consecrated.

Listing NGR: SE3667276957

External Links

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