Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD2273 CHURCH STREET, Dalton In Furness
708-1/11/167 (South side (off))
06/05/76 Gravestone to George Romney
approximately 12 metres south of
Church of St Mary
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET, Dalton In Furness
Gravestone of George Romney in
churchyard to SE of church)

GV II

Graveslab on plinth. 1802, restored 1895 by Miles of Ulverston
(Ayre). Slate slab on limestone plinth. Slab bears short Latin
inscription to George Romney died 15.11.1802. Moulded plinth
reads 'THIS MEMORIAL WAS RESTORED BY JOHN ORDE ROMNEY OF
WHITESTOCK HALL IN THIS COUNTY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1895'.
George Romney was born nearby at Beckside on 15.12.1734 and
became 3rd of the fashionable portrait painters in the time of
Reynolds and Gainsborough.
(Walton J E: Dalton in Furness in Old Picture Postcards:
Netherlands: 1983-: PL 42; Waterhouse E: Dictionary of British
C18 Painters in Oils and Crayons: 1981-: 317-318; Rev Canon
Ayre: North Lonsdale Magazine: Ulverston: 1896-: 59).

Listing NGR: SD2259773874

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q96095966

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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