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Title
Hartley Disaster Memorial
Date
1862
Medium
sandstone
Measurements
H 450 x W 300 x D 300 cm
Accession number
NE25_SD_S006
Work type
Monument
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II (England and Wales)
Listing date
19/02/86
Access
at all times
Inscription description
pedestal, east face: ERECTED / TO THE MEMORY OF THE 204 MINERS WHO LOST THEIR / LIVES IN HARTLEY PIT, BY THE FATAL CATASTROPHE / OF THE ENGINE BEAM BREAKING 16th JANUARY 1862; on pedestal, south face: BE NOT DECEIVED: GOD IS NOT MOCKED: FOR WHAT- / SOEVER A MAN SOWETH, THAT HE SHALL ALSO REAP / GALAT VI CHAP VII VERS; on pedestal, north face: THEREFORE BE YE ALSO READY: FOR SUCH AN HOUR / AS YE THINK NOT THE SON OF MAN COMETH. / MATTHEW XXII CHAP XLIV VERS / BLESSED THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD / REVN XIV CHAP XIII VERS / 'IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH'