MEDIEVAL TOMB SET IN LYCH GATE TO CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW

MEDIEVAL TOMB SET IN LYCH GATE TO CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192755
Date first listed:: 31-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: MEDIEVAL TOMB SET IN LYCH GATE TO CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW
Statutory Address:: MEDIEVAL TOMB SET IN LYCH GATE TO CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192755
Date first listed:: 31-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: MEDIEVAL TOMB SET IN LYCH GATE TO CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW
Statutory Address 1:: MEDIEVAL TOMB SET IN LYCH GATE TO CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MEDIEVAL TOMB SET IN LYCH GATE TO CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Maltby
National Grid Reference:: SK 52763 91904

Details

MALTBY CHURCH LANE SK59SW (south end) 3/43 Medieval tomb set in lych gate to Church of Saint Bartholomew GV II Altar tomb. C14, resited c1863. Magnesian limestone inlaid with brass. Rectangular with hollow plinth moulding, inscribed side panels and moulded lid inlaid with brass cross having an ogee-arch beneath a stepped Calvary base. Inscribed panel on east side reads 'mors janua vitae' (death, the gateway to life). Unique of its kind in South Yorkshire. Its present location has allowed vandalism including removal of part of the brass cross. P. F. Ryder, Saxon Churches in South Yorkshire, County Archaeology Monograph No2, 1982, p85-87 (line drawings).

Listing NGR: SK5276391904

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Legacy System number:: 335918
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ryder, P F, 'South Yorkshire County Archaeological Monograph' in Saxon Churches in South Yorkshire, , Vol. 2, (1982), 85-87

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.