Building record 0576903000 - WILLIAM LIBERTY'S TOMBSTONE

TOMB OF WILLIAM LIBERTY. INSCRIPTION: 'TO THE MEMORY OF OUR WILLIAM LIBERTY WHO DIED IN 1777'. HE LEFT INSTRUCTIONS NOT TO BE BURIED IN THE CHURCHYARD AS HE ANTICIPATED THAT AT THE RESURRECTION THERE WOULD BE SUCH A SCRAMBLE FOR BONES THAT HE MIGHT HAVE DIFFICULTY FINDING HIS OWN (B5). AT NGR (B8, B23). ARTICLES ON THE TOMB (B14,B16).
Grade II. Chest tomb. 1777 to 'William Liberty/of Chorley Wood Brickmaker/who was by his own desire/buried in a vault/on this part of his estate/died 21 April 1777 aged 53 years/and/Alice Liberty his wife'. Thick limestone engraved slab as top to chest tomb with chamfered plinth and fine-jointed red brickwork as sides of chest. Reeded surround to a panel cut into brick at each end and 2 on S face next the path. Small granite slab set into brickwork at W end. Aligned E-W with an iron railed enclosure. Kelly in 1914 describes the tomb as being in an orchard 200 yards to E of old church. (Kelly (1914) p101)(B30).