A11, MONUMENTS 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 400, 301, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411

A11, MONUMENTS 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 400, 301, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1021940
Date first listed:: 30-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:: A11, MONUMENTS 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 400, 301, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411
Statutory Address:: A11, MONUMENTS 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 400, 301, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1021940
Date first listed:: 30-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:: A11, MONUMENTS 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 400, 301, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411
Statutory Address 1:: A11, MONUMENTS 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 400, 301, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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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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Statutory Address:: A11, MONUMENTS 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 400, 301, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Bury St. Edmunds
National Grid Reference:: TL 85802 64036

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SE ABBEY PRECINCTS, Great Churchyard 639-1/17/93 (Consecutive) A 11, MON: 379 TO 411

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A group of 33 headstones, removed from St James' Churchyard and set in a row against the wall at the east end of Area 11:- MON 379: 1740. Ketton stone. To MARTHA CRANE. A very good design: a winged angel head with swags of flowers. MON 380: 18??. York stone. ROBERT THOMPSON. Plain. MON 381: Early C19. York stone. -PSON. Plain and very worn. MON 382: 181?. Ketton stone. To MARY MAZABER THOMPSON, 1833; ROBERT THOMPSON, her brother, 1831; SARAH THOMPSON, MOTHER, 1853; ZARAH ANN, 181?. Plain. MON 383: 1873 or 1875. Portland stone. To WILLIAM JAMES MOSTRAM. A Victorian design. MON 384: 1807. Ketton stone. To MARY FULCHER, 1807; JOHN FULCHER, 1827. Decorated with a draped urn. MON 385: 1757. Ketton stone. Inscribed H.B. 2 winged angel heads flanking a crown; drapes at the sides. MON 386: 1741. Ketton stone. Commemorates a person of 23. A winged angel head and scrolled top. MON 387: 1714. Ketton stone. Commemorates a person of 17. 2 winged angel heads and flowers. Flowers and fruit down the sides. MON 388: 1711. Ketton stone. WILLIAM DAY. Good cartouche with inscription ' Here lyeth ye body of Willm.son of Willm. and Ann Day who died ye 19th day of December 1711 aged 11 months(sic)'. The t is missing and the s is out on the foliage at the side of the cartouche, which has a skull over cross-bones flanked by winged angel heads and foliage at the sides. MON 389: 1690. Ketton stone. To JOHN RECKLING, 1690; MARY SCOTT,1846. Very good cartouche. Interesting palimpsest, reused at a much later date. The original and obverse side reads " Here lyeth ye / body of John Reckling / who dyed October ye / 6 day 1690 / Aged 45''. This is beautifully lettered and well preserved. The design is of a winged angel head with crossed wings and scrolls forming the top of the headstone; the cartouche is bellied. The reverse of the stone commemorates Mary Scott. MON 390: 1828. Ketton stone. To JAMES HOY, 1828, and MARTHA, his wife, 1835. Plain; the lettering was once painted. MON 391: 1710. Ketton stone. To ? (wife of WILLIAM HERBERT

late watchmaker in Fenchurch St, London). Angel's head without wings, heavily draped and flanked by skulls. Scrolls and foliage at the sides of a bellied inscription panel. In very good condition. MON 392: 1826. Portland stone. ISAAC CHESSON, also his wife. A cherub with his right hand on a skull, holding left hand to his eyes as if weeping, set in an oval flanked by urns. MON 393: 1724. Ketton stone. ? 1724; MARY (wife), 1755. A large design of a skull flanked by winged angel heads. MON 394: 180?. York stone. STER...SCOTT. A standing figure of Hope in an oval. Very worn. MON 395: Early C19. York stone. WILLIAM STER....A seated cherub in an oval flanked by foliage, with back half turned, writing on a tablet. MON 396: 1771. Ketton stone. THOMAS COCKSEDGE, 1784; ANN, his wife, 1771. 2 winged angel heads and an eggshell festoon. MON 397: 1800. Portland stone. No surviving name. A Neo-Classical design showing a pedestal-tomb with a larger festooned urn flanked by reversed torches. An oval inscription panel with fan decoration in corners. MON 398: 1685. Ketton stone. BERNARD MILLS, 1710; ELIZABETH, 1685 & ALICE, ?1706, his wives. A winged angel head; festoons of foliage and flowers down the sides of the inscription panel. MON 399: 1744. Ketton stone. ROBERT HAYWARD, 1744; ? his wife, 1761. A design with 2 winged angel heads. MON 400: 1745. Ketton stone. WILLIAM PIZEY ?, 1755; MARY, 1745. Decorated with a good winged angel head. MON 401: 1791. Ketton stone. SARAH PIZEY, wife of W.P. A winged angel head with a fine expression has a draped urn on its left and an hourglass on its right. MON 402: 1719. Ketton stone. ?, 1730; SUSAN, wife, 1719. An open book over crossed palms. A double inscription panel. MON 403: Early C19. Ketton stone. HENRY MILLER. 2 winged angel heads and foliage. MON 404: 183?. Ketton stone. ELIZABETH CHALLIS & GEORGE, her son. 2 winged angel heads. A raised edge to the inscription panel. MON 405: Early C19. Ketton stone. Inscribed ''Here lies four children of JOHN and ELIZABETH SMITH. ELIZABETH, ...., ...., ROBERT.all dyed Infants'. A large design of a skull over cross-bones; foliage over 2 neat winged angel heads. MON 406:18??. Portland stone. JOHN EDWARD COCKSEDGE; ? . Plain. The name Edward has been carved over Frederick, a very good example of a mason's error. MON 407: 17??. Portland stone. JOHN GARNHAM, 17??; ANN, his wife, 1821; JOHN, his son, 1838. Design of a weeping seated cherub with a wreath in his right hand, his left elbow resting

on a pedestal-tomb with a broken column, all within a draped oval. MON 408: 1817. Portland stone. JOHN DOOLEY. A small cross in an oval. MON 409: Early C19. Ketton stone. ? ; SARAH, his wife. A winged angel head over 2 oval inscription panels with crossed palms beneath them. MON 410: 1832. Ketton stone. WILLIAM BUCK. Plain. MON 411: 1710. Ketton stone. MARY FISH. A palimpsest. A winged angel head with flowers and fruit. (Survey of Monuments in the Great Churchyard c.1960: West Suffolk CC: SECTION 11).

Listing NGR: TL8580264036

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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.