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Memorial to Slagg Family to West of Church of St Mary (12 Metres North West of Memorial to John Brooks, QV)

A Grade II Listed Building in St Mary's, Bury

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.5294 / 53°31'45"N

Longitude: -2.2875 / 2°17'15"W

OS Eastings: 381036

OS Northings: 403678

OS Grid: SD810036

Mapcode National: GBR DWGM.KJ

Mapcode Global: WH983.TKW4

Plus Code: 9C5VGPH6+QX

Entry Name: Memorial to Slagg Family to West of Church of St Mary (12 Metres North West of Memorial to John Brooks, QV)

Listing Date: 23 May 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1250837

English Heritage Legacy ID: 433321

ID on this website: 101250837

Location: St Mary's Church, Prestwich, Bury, Greater Manchester, M25

County: Bury

Electoral Ward/Division: St Mary's

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Manchester

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester

Church of England Parish: Prestwich St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Manchester

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Description


SD 8103
326-/1/10012


CHURCH LANE
(west side)
Memorial to Slagg family
- to west of Church of St
Mary (12m NW of memorial to John Brooks, qv)


GV II


Tomb chest, c1875-80, by Alfred Waterhouse. Commemorates John Slagg and others of his
family. Dressed sandstone and pink polished granite. Venetian Gothic style. Broad rectangular base,
chest in Gothic style, with 8 polished pink granite colonettes framing 3 yellow sandstone panels
in each side and one at each end, a cavetto frieze with foliation (eroded), and a hipped canopy with
3 bands of weathering and a ridge formed by the shaft of cross which has an overlaid wreath on
its head at the west end. All the panels are sunk cusped diamonds, some containing inscriptions:
that at the east end commemorates John Slagg (d. February 25th 1875); that in the centre of the
north side (worn and now only partly legible) Thomas, infant son of John Slagg; that at the west
end Jane, wife of John Slagg (d.1886), and two on the south side William, his youngest son
(d.1875, aged 34) and Edith, wife of William, (d.1918).


Listing NGR: SD8103603678

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