Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Mary, Kirkby Lonsdale: gravestone 10


included in:-	St Mary, Kirkby Lonsdale
	St Mary, Kirkby Lonsdale: gravestone 10

site name:-	St Mary's Church
locality:-	Kirkby Lonsdale
civil parish:-	Kirkby Lonsdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	gravestone
locality type:-	monument
locality type:-	obelisk
coordinates:-	SD61087882
1Km square:-	SD6178
10Km square:-	SD67

	CDN86.jpg Monument to 5 women burned in the fire at the Rose and Crown, 1820. (taken 9.7.2015) CDN87.jpg Monument, "Sacred / TO THE MEMORY / of / ALICE CLARK, aged 31 years: / AGNESS WALLING, / aged 25: / BELLA CORNTHWAITE, / aged 20: / HANNAH ARMSTRONG, / aged 18: / AGNES NICHOLSON, aged 17: / All of whom were hurried into eternity in the / awful destruction by fire of the Rose / and Crown Hotel in this town: on the / night of the 6th. of December / 1820." (taken 9.7.2015)

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Obelisk, The
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "MONUMENT ENTILTED OBELISK, IN THE CHURCHYARD TO THE WEST OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY / / QUEENS SQUARE / KIRKBY LONSDALE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75257 / SD6108778823"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "1821. Erected by Voluntary Contrubutions to commemorate five women who died in the fire which destroyed the Hose and Crown Inn in 1820. Inscription is raised. Panel on pedestal. Biblical texts on other side."

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