George Barnes


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Reference WMO/292594

Address:

White Knowle Graveyard

Hayfield Road

Chinley

SK23 6EA

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Addition to Gravestone
Materials:
  • Stone Sandstone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Additional wording to the inscription on a family gravestone. The gravestone comprises a tall sandstone headstone with a triangular arch top, stepped shoulders, recessed sides and an incised inscription The headstone is accompanied by an oblong sandstone base with bevelled top, an oblong recumbent sandstone tablet, a further recumbent sandstone tablet in the style of an unfurled scroll and oblong sandstone kerbs. The inscriptions on the headstone, base and tablets are in upright capital block lettering. It is in front of the former Chapel (now a private house).
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Headstone: AT/ REST/ In Loving Memory of/ THOMAS BARNES/ OF ALDERS FARM,/ WHO DIED SEPT. 28TH. 1923,/ AGED 75 YEARS./ ALSO HANNAH, BELOVED WIFE OF/ THOMAS BARNES,/ BORN APRIL 13TH. 1856, DIED MARCH 16TH. 1915./ ALSO ELIZABETH,/ BELOVED DAUGHTER OF/ THOMAS & HANNAH BARNES/ WHO DIED MARCH 1ST. 1898, AGED 14 YEARS./ ALSO JAMES,/ THEIR BELOVED SON,/ WHO DIED JULY 16TH. 1912 AGED 27 YEARS./ ALSO GEORGE, THEIR BELOVED SON/ WHO DIED OF WOUNDS IN FRANCE SEP. 5TH. 1918,/ AGED 26 YEARS./ ALSO JOHN, THEIR BELOVED SON/ WHO DIED JULY 15TH. 1944,/ AGED 56 YEARS./ ALSO MARY EDITH PARKES,/ DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE AND BELOVED WIFE OF/ FRANK HUBERT PARKES./ AND MOTHER OF LEONARD AND JOHN/ DIED OCTOBER 17TH. 1951 AGED 61 YEARS./ INTERRED AT QUINTON CEMETERY/ BIRMINGHAM./ ALSO [ELIZH. HOLLIN] OF DISLEY/ SISTER OF THE ABOVE THOMAS BARNES,/ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JUNE 2ND. 1880,/ IN THE 23RD. YEAR OF HER AGE.; Base: ALSO A DEAR HUSBAND AND FATHER JOSEPH BARNES/ WHO PASSED AWAY 29TH. NOV. 1955, IN HIS 75TH. YEAR; Flat tablet: ALSO HOPE LILLIAN/ DEAR WIFE OF THE ABOVE/ JOSEPH BARNES/ DIED 1ST. MARCH 1974/ AGED 83 YEARS/ ALSO IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ BEATRICE MARY BARNES/ THEIR BELOVED DAUGHTER/ WHO [...] [1988] AGED 67 YEARS.

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