Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ35NE CHESTER ROAD
920-1/4/36 (North side (off))
Webster tomb 210 metres west of
South-East Lodge Bishopwearmouth
Cemetery

GV II

Column gravestone and kerbstones. c1890. By Bower & Florence
of Aberdeen to Christopher Maling Webster, 1813-1890, of
Pallion Hall, and members of his family. Red granite with
bronze letters. Kerb with trefoil moulding and trefoil-gabled
dwarf piers encloses large rectangle with square projection on
W side. In this projection stands a high symbolically-broken
column, with segmental cornice to square pedestal and carved
high-relief anchor and rope at base. Long inscription on
pedestal records names of Webster family. The first ropeworks
for mechanical rope-making were built c1793 in Sunderland by
an earlier Webster ((qv) Webster's Ropery, Ropery Road).

Listing NGR: NZ3737256109

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502237

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