GROUP OF THREE MONUMENTS ABOUT 6 METRES NORTH OF NORTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1022473
Date first listed:: 25-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF THREE MONUMENTS ABOUT 6 METRES NORTH OF NORTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF THREE MONUMENTS ABOUT 6 METRES NORTH OF NORTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN

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Date:: 2003-03-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1022473
Date first listed:: 25-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF THREE MONUMENTS ABOUT 6 METRES NORTH OF NORTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF THREE MONUMENTS ABOUT 6 METRES NORTH OF NORTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN

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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Statutory Address:: GROUP OF THREE MONUMENTS ABOUT 6 METRES NORTH OF NORTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Compton Bassett
National Grid Reference:: SU0307071611

Details

SU 07 SW 9/155

COMPTON BASSETT COMPTON BASSETT VILLAGE Group of three monuments about 6m north of north porch of Church of St Swithin

GV II

Three chest tombs, late C18 to C19, ashlar. From south: a Maunder monument, late C18, plain with chamfered base and capstone. South inscription to Harriott Maunder, died 1772, north to Richard Maunder. b) Austin monument, early C19, neo-Grec, with ridged stepped cap, angle acroteriae with honeysuckle decoration, angle piers with incised panels and raised plaque to Thomas Austin died 1826. c) Bodman monument, early C19, with trapezoid plaque each side on horizontally fluted ground. Fluted angle piers. Moulded base and cap. Inscription to Benjamin Bodman died 1823.

Listing NGR: SU0307071611

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Legacy System number:: 316279
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.