When I read the theme for Day 18 of 31 Days of Graves, I did think to myself, well, I’ll never find anything metal in our cemeteries, as I was thinking particularly about the memorial stones themselves, knowing that many of ours are Swithland slate, or Welsh slate, marble, or granite, to mention but a few. I have seen metal memorials in several places, including somewhere near Ironbridge – no big surprise there!!
So, wandering around our local cemeteries, I did spot holes where metal uprights had once been, and a few other oddments of metalwork. Of course, there are still iron railings surrounding the old cemetery on Leicester Road, and a lovely entrance gate, too.
So, here are some of the other things I found. In the churchyard of All Saints with Holy Trinity, the monument to Richard Crosher was partly surrounded by iron railings.
In the old
cemetery on Leicester Road there were also railings, one forming a complete
rectangle around the grave of Agnes Ewart McGunnel, and remnants in front of the
grave of John Walter Greenwood.
Meanwhile,
standing upright next to the memorial to John Jones, local ironfounder, is a
metal plot marker.
Over in the grounds of the Old Rectory there are memorial stones to people who worshipped at the old Baptist chapel on Wood Gate (demolished c.1976). At the top of the one which remembers John Angrave is a metal plaque, which is badly worn, but it appears to bear the following inscription:
THANKS TO THE
GENEROSITY OF
SOWDEN &
CO. LTD.,
BUILDERS,
ENGINEERS & CONTRACTORS,
TUDOR ROAD,
LEICESTER.
THE WOODGATE
CHAPEL
STONES HAVE
BEEN SAVED.
These are just a few of the examples of metalwork I found in our cemeteries.
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