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Latitude: 53.7865 / 53°47'11"N
Longitude: -1.5594 / 1°33'33"W
OS Eastings: 429129
OS Northings: 432333
OS Grid: SE291323
Mapcode National: GBR BFQ.MF
Mapcode Global: WHC9L.03Q0
Plus Code: 9C5WQCPR+J7
Entry Name: Murray Memorial and Enclosure Railings
Listing Date: 9 March 1987
Last Amended: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1256112
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465233
ID on this website: 101256112
Location: Holbeck, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS11
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: Beeston and Holbeck
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Holbeck
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Memorial
SE2932
714-1/42/852
09/03/87
LEEDS
ST MATTHEW'S STREET, Holbeck
(East side)
Murray Memorial and enclosure railings
(Formerly Listed as:
ST MATTHEW STREET, Holbeck
(East side (off))
Murray Memorial & railings approx 60m W of Meynell Heights, Cemetery etc)
GV
II
Memorial in railed enclosure. c1830. Commemorates Matthew and
Mary Murray; cast-iron and stone. Rectangular enclosure has
low chamfered stone wall supporting pointed-finialed bars;
stone flags inside.
The central obelisk has 4-step stone and iron podium, iron
plinth block with raised stone panels in iron architraves
bearing inscriptions, and iron obelisk above. The south panel
is inscribed: 'IN A VAULT UNDERNEATH/ ARE DEPOSITED THE
REMAINS OF/ MATTHEW MURRAY/ CIVIL ENGINEER OF HOLBECK/ WHO
DIED THE XX OF FEBRUARY/ MDCCCXXVI, AGED LX YEARS/ ALSO OF
MARY HIS WIFE/ WHO DIED THE XVIII/ OF DECEMBER MDCCCXXXVI/
AGED LXXII YEARS.' The N and W panels commemorate other
members of the Murray family including a grandson, William
Murray Jackson c1882, and a great grandson, Matthew Murray
Jackson who were engineers also.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Matthew Murray was important as a designer
and builder of both stationary and locomotive engines,
supplying Middleton tramway with four of the latter in
1812-13, more than a decade before the opening of Stephenson's
Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825 and the building of
his 'Rocket' in 1829. Murray's foundry was a short distance
away from the cemetery, on Water Lane, now No.99 (qv).
Listing NGR: SE2912932333
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