This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
HELSTON
SW6427 CHURCH STREET 631-1/4/46 (West side) Group of 3 chest tombs approx. 25 metres north of Church of St Michael
GV II
Group of 3 chest tombs. Earliest tomb dated 1829 to Thomas Trevethan, d. aged 84; another to Catherine, wife of Thomas Phillips, d.1837 aged 27 and other one to Joseph Roberts, d.1830 aged 50. Dressed granite moulded monolithic sides plus low-pitched pedimented stelae at one end of each tomb. Each chest tomb is rectangular on plan. All have marble panels with recessed corners inset to east end; the Trevethan tomb has scrolled anthemion decoration.
Listing NGR: SW6578827765
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0315 IOE Records taken by Eric J Busby; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Eric J Busby. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Busby, Eric J
Rights Holder: Busby, Eric J
Granite, Marble, Georgian Chest Tomb, Religious Ritual And Funerary, Tomb, Funerary Site
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