Description

SJ4065
1932-1/8/209

CHESTER CITY (EM)
OVERLEIGH ROAD
(North side (off))

Monument to W Brown in north part of Overleigh Cemetery

II

GV

Obelisk monument to William Brown, second generation owner of
the pioneering drapery, then department store, Browns of
Chester. c1852. Polished red granite. Approx 4m high. The
plinth is inscribed "SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM BROWN
ESQUIRE A MAGISTRATE OF THIS CITY WHO AT THE AGE OF SIXTY
THREE DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF JUNE ONE
THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY TWO DEEPLY LAMENTED BY HIS

FELLOW CITIZENS WHO TO RECORD THEIR HIGH SENSE OF HIS
UNWEARIED EXERTIONS ON BEHALF OF THE CHARITIES OF HIS NATIVE
CITY AND HIS GREAT PUBLIC USEFULNESS HAVE RAISED THIS MONUMENT
IN HIS MEMORY".

Listing NGR: SJ 40269 65419

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656598

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)