Jesmond Old Cemetery, Grave of Richard Cail
Jesmond Old Cemetery, Grave of Richard Cail
HER Number
15948
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Jesmond Old Cemetery, Grave of Richard Cail
Place
Jesmond
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Grave Marker
Site Type: Specific
Gravestone
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
1812-1893. Richard Cail was a railway and reservoir engineering. He was Mayor of Newcastle in 1872 and 1879. His gravestone is a massive 4 ton granite block, which Alan Morgan says resembles a fallen tree trunk. Richard Cail designed it himself and described it in his will.
Easting
425710
Northing
565490
Grid Reference
NZ425710565490
Sources
Alan Morgan, 2000, A Fine and Private Place - Jesmond Old Cemetery, p 21