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| St Michael, Stanwix: monument 2 | ||
| site name:- | St Michael's Church | |
| locality:- | Stanwix | |
| civil parish:- | Carlisle (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | monument | |
| locality type:- | memorial | |
| locality type:- | tomb | |
| locality type:- | cross | |
| coordinates:- | NY40175698 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4056 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY45 | |
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 CFI26.jpg (taken 5.8.2016)  CFI27.jpg "[HERE LIE THE / MORTAL BODIES / OF FIVE LITTLE / SISTERS THE MUCH / LOVED CHILDREN / OF A C TAIT DEAN OF / CARLISLE AND / CATHERINE HIS WIFE / ...]" Memorial to five children of Dean Tait who died of scarlet fever, 1856 (taken 5.8.2016) |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Harper 1907 item:- scarlet fever |
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| source data:- | Guidebook, The Manchester and Glasgow Road, by Charles G Harper,
published by Chapman and Hall Ltd, London, 1907. HP01p152.txt Page 152:- "... A pathetic story is told by one of the epitaphs [St Michael, Stanwix]: "Here lie the mortal bodies of five little sisters, the much-loved children of A. C. Tait, Dean of Carlisle, and of Catherine, his wife, who were all cut off within five weeks." They died during an epidemic of scarlet-fever, in 1856. A memorial window to them in is the north transept of the Cathedral. "A. C. Tait" was, of course, Archibald Campbell Tait, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "MONUMENT TO DEAN TAIT'S CHILDREN TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL / / CHURCH STREET / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 386683 / NY4018156980" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Churchyard memorial. 1856. Calciferous sandstone ashlar and cast-iron railings. Floret cross on broad chamfered hexagonal plinth inscribed to 5 children of Dean Tait, who died within weeks of each other of smallpox in 1856. Surrounded by low rectangular kerb with speared railings. Stands on the slope of the south ditch of Stanwix Roman Fort. Dean Tait was a prominent Broad Churchman who became Bishop of London (1856) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1868); died 1882." |
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