MONUMENT TO ADYE FAMILY IN THE CHURCHYARD, 1 METRE SOUTH WEST OF PORCH, PARISH CHURCH

MONUMENT TO ADYE FAMILY IN THE CHURCHYARD, 1 METRE SOUTH WEST OF PORCH, PARISH CHURCH, MALMESBURY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1283728
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT TO ADYE FAMILY IN THE CHURCHYARD, 1 METRE SOUTH WEST OF PORCH, PARISH CHURCH
Statutory Address:: MONUMENT TO ADYE FAMILY IN THE CHURCHYARD, 1 METRE SOUTH WEST OF PORCH, PARISH CHURCH, MALMESBURY ROAD

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Date:: 2002-07-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1283728
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT TO ADYE FAMILY IN THE CHURCHYARD, 1 METRE SOUTH WEST OF PORCH, PARISH CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: MONUMENT TO ADYE FAMILY IN THE CHURCHYARD, 1 METRE SOUTH WEST OF PORCH, PARISH CHURCH, MALMESBURY ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MONUMENT TO ADYE FAMILY IN THE CHURCHYARD, 1 METRE SOUTH WEST OF PORCH, PARISH CHURCH, MALMESBURY ROAD

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Easton Grey
National Grid Reference:: ST 88078 87634

Details

EASTON GREY MALMESBURY ROAD ST 88 NE (south side) 3/21 Monument to Adye family in the churchyard, lm south-west of porch, Parish Church GV II*

Chest tomb of exceptional quality. 1731. Limestone. Rococo style with moulded plinth, deeply projecting cyma-recta moulded slab and gadrooned, scrolled and fluted angle pilasters. Elaborately carved in deep relief with 2 putti to south face flanking an inscription cartouche: florid lettering in italic script. Further putti to west end; skulls, an hour glass and scythe and devil's head to east end. The Adye family held the manor of Easton Grey in the early C18. (Shell Guide to Wiltshire, 1968)

Listing NGR: ST8807887634

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Legacy System number:: 318018
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Cheetham, J, Piper, J, 'Shell County Guides' in Wiltshire, (1968)

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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.