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Monument to Dean Tait's Children, Stanwix
In the churchyard of St Michael's Church in Stanwix, is a monument to the 5 children of Dean Tait, who died within weeks of each other of smallpox in 1856. Dean Tait was a prominent Broad Churchman who became Bishop of London in 1856, and Archbishop of Canterbury in 1868; he died in 1882.[1] The monument is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England. It stands on what was the slope of the south ditch of the Roman fort, which once stood here. There is also a memorial window to the children in St Wilfrid's Chapel within Carlisle Cathedral
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Detail of inscription on the grave of Dean Tait's daughters
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MONUMENT TO DEAN TAIT'S CHILDREN TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL - Carlisle - List Entry
- 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 …
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Simon Cotterill
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Detail of inscription on the grave of Dean Tait's daughters
Pinned by Simon Cotterill
from https://historicengland.org.u…
MONUMENT TO DEAN TAIT'S CHILDREN TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL - Carlisle - List Entry
- 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 …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
