Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, Webster tomb

Column gravestone and kerbstones. C1890. By Bower and Florence of Aberdeen to Christopher Maling Webster, 1813-1890, of Pallion Hall, and members of his family. Red granite with bronze letters. Kerb with trefoil moulding and trefoil-gabled dwarf piers. A high symbolically-broken column, with square pedestal and carved high relief anchor and rope at base. Long inscription on pedestal records names of Webster family. The first ropeworks for mechanical rope-making were built c1793 in Sunderland by an earlier Webster (HER 2799). LISTED GRADE 2