Building record 1563/14/1 - Memorial Outside Roe Street Sunday School

Memorial dated 1846. Stone with battered pedestal mounted on steps and surmounted by cornice with acroteria. Plain block above this with chamfered top, itself surmounted by a draped urn. Inscription on pedestal records "As a tribute of veneration and esteem for the public and private benevolence of John Whitaker the founder, this monument is erected by the volountary contributions of a grateful posterity the 6th day of May 1846 being the 50th anniversary of the establishment of this Sunday school". On the upper block a low relief bust (1).
It is directly in front of the Sunday school [CSMR 1563/14/0].

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 886-1/12/193 (Report). SCH1934.

<2> Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME), 1994, An Inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in the North of England, Cheshire Number 74 (Book). SCH4548.

<3> Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Revised List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, Borough of Macclesfield 1994/ 137 (Unpublished Report). SCH4570.