List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: LAW MONUMENT BY CHURCHYARD ENTRANCE TO NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
List Entry Number: 1187745
Location
LAW MONUMENT BY CHURCHYARD ENTRANCE TO NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Staffordshire
District: Lichfield
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Lichfield
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 17-Jun-1994
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 382622
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List Entry Description
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History
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Details
LICHFIELD
SK1209NW CHURCH STREET
1094-1/6/70 (South side)
Law monument by churchyard entrance
to north-east of Church of St
Michael
GV II
Monument to James Thomas Law, Chancellor of the Diocese and
Master of the Hospital of St John, d.1876, and his wife
Henrietta Charlotte, d.1866. 1864. By Chancellor Law. Ashlar
with some stippled tooling. Rectangular monument on 2 steps
has 3 trefoil-headed arches to sides and 2 to ends; drip
course, deep frieze with guilloche moulding and top cornice
with brattishing; pyramidal ashlar roof and finial with cross
in heavy roundel. Arches have no mouldings; square piers have
capitals with mouldings to sides; iron rails within arches. 2
gabled slabs inside have inscriptions. Originally had clock
illuminated by gas to top roundel, for people using the main
road to Burton and the Trent Valley Railway Station.
Chancellor Law was an important local benefactor.
Listing NGR: SK1239409627
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Map
National Grid Reference: SK 12394 09627
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