York Historic Environment Record

Family vault of the Gray family. First burial was that of Alderman Jonathan Gray, died 11 December 1837. Stone. Vault is closed by sloped cover inscribed with the names of Jonathan Gray, his widow, Mary, died 1849, and other members of his family. Vault is covered by crocketed octo-pyramidal canopy raised on cinquefoiled arches beneath crocketed ogee hoodmoulds. At each corner are paired angle buttresses which rise into crocketed pinnacles. Canopy is crowned with crocket finial. Alderman Gray was a founder member and first Chairman of the York Public Cemetery Company. Although he died at Hastings where he was buried, his monument erected over the family vault is one of the earliest in the York Cemetery and is depicted on an isometric plan of 1842. (Murray H: This Garden of Death: the History of York Cemetery: York: 1992-: 5, 9).
Listing NGR: SE6117550823

Derived from English Heritage LB download dated: 22/08/2005