Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB20/03/003 A

Address :
Henry Memorial Cranfield Graveyard Cranfield Road Randalstown Antrim Co Antrim

Townland:
Cranfield

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:
16/10/1974 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:
19/03/2002 00:00:00

Current Use:
Mausoleum

Former Use
Mausoleum

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
Yes

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
111/1

IG Ref:
J0551 8524

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

A greystone memorial slab standing upright in the ground, now slightly leaning forward. It is carved with a pair of engaged Tuscan colonnettes which carry a scrolled open pediment. Some of the moulded stonework is missing. Incised inscription to front, which appears to read as follows – "Here Lieth the body of Felmy Henry. Departed the 7th of Septr. 1738 aged 70 years. Also his wife Meabel departed the 9 July 1760 aged 72 years." The rear face is plain. SETTING: It stands in the old graveyard of Cranfield, on the south side of the ruinous 13th century church about approximately its own width out from the wall of the church and two-thirds the length of the church along from the west end. The graveyard contains a number of memorials of 18th, 19th and 20th century date. The entrance to the graveyard is by a modern steel barred gate with steel posts set between two large boulders on end which abut the stone revetments surrounding the graveyard; revetments surmounted by a hedge on the inside.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Erected to the memory of Felmy Henry who died in 1738; it also commemorates his wife who died in 1760. Nothing of special significance or importance or local associational interest is known regarding the two individuals commemorated. The headstone stands within the area of a scheduled monument, no. ANT49: 49. The church was built probably in the 13th century, and was ruinous by the early 17th century. References – Primary Sources 1. Inscription on slab. Secondary Sources 1. UAHS, West Antrim (Belfast, 1970), p 22 (but refers to church rather than graveyard). 2. D.A. Chart, E.E. Evans, and H.C. Lawlor, A Preliminary Survey of the Ancient Monuments of Northern Ireland (HMSO, Belfast, 1940), p 42 (but refers to church rather than graveyard). 3. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 19: Parishes of County Antrim VI, 1830, 1833, 1835-38 (Belfast, 1993), pp 32, 71 (but refers to the church rather than the graveyard, and the only reference to a memorial is to a Captain Hagan's tomb).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a headstone of apparently early 18th century date, in a classical style, of modest dimensions, but of no known special historical interest.

General Comments

Date of Survey

20 September 1999