Description

SK49SE
2/136

WICKERSLEY
CHURCH LANE
(north side)
Pair of grave stones to the Bower family situated approximately 10 metres to south of nave of Church of St. Alban

GV
II

Pair of grave stones. c1714. Red sandstone. Raised rectangular slab with
additional slab at its foot. Fine inscriptions to Sarah, daughter of John
Bower, d 1714 aged 18; also to son Benjamin, d 1718 aged 16 and wife
Elizabeth, d 1718 aged 60; the inscriptions are set beneath a rope-moulded
arch with florets and scale ornament in the spandrels, side panels of
stylised sinuous foliage. At the foot is a plain slab to John Bower himself
who died in 1737 aged 65. Good example of its kind.

Listing NGR: SK4784091655

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26488177

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]