TOMB OF COUNT AND COUNTESS DE MORELLA APPROXIMATELY 45 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF NORTH TRANSEPT OF CHRIST CHURCH

TOMB OF COUNT AND COUNTESS DE MORELLA APPROXIMATELY 45 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF NORTH TRANSEPT OF CHRIST CHURCH, CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (NORTH SIDE OFF)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1028903
Date first listed:: 19-May-1988
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF COUNT AND COUNTESS DE MORELLA APPROXIMATELY 45 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF NORTH TRANSEPT OF CHRIST CHURCH
Statutory Address:: TOMB OF COUNT AND COUNTESS DE MORELLA APPROXIMATELY 45 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF NORTH TRANSEPT OF CHRIST CHURCH, CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (NORTH SIDE OFF)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1028903
Date first listed:: 19-May-1988
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF COUNT AND COUNTESS DE MORELLA APPROXIMATELY 45 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF NORTH TRANSEPT OF CHRIST CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB OF COUNT AND COUNTESS DE MORELLA APPROXIMATELY 45 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF NORTH TRANSEPT OF CHRIST CHURCH, CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (NORTH SIDE OFF)

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:: TOMB OF COUNT AND COUNTESS DE MORELLA APPROXIMATELY 45 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF NORTH TRANSEPT OF CHRIST CHURCH, CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (NORTH SIDE OFF)

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Runnymede (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 98857 68580

Details

SU 96 NE VIRGINIA WATER CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (north side, off)

3/140 Tomb of Count and Countess de Morella approximately 45 metres to north east of north transept of Christ Church

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Memorial. Early C20. Commemorates Ramon Cabrera, Count de Morella, Marquis del Ter d. 1877 and his wife Marianne Catherine, d. 1915. Polished grey granite. Tall plain cross mounted on 4-step podium, the top step with relief carving of Roman- style tools of war (helmet, sword, spear, shield, laurel wreath). Face of top step has raised border and inscription commemorating Ramon Cabrera and the step below an inscription commemorating his wife. Cabrera was a Carlist general in the Civil Wars in Spain 1836-43. He was ennobled by the pretender, Carlos V, and praised by the Duke of Wellington for his military prowess. After the Carlists' defeat he settled in England. R H Chant, Spanish Tiger (Midas Books, 1983). E Holt, The Carlist Wars in Spain (Putnam 1967). M Tomas, Ramon Cabrera (Historia de un Hombre), (Editorial juventud S A Barcelona, 1939).

Listing NGR: SU9885768580

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 289827
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Chant, R H, Spanish Tiger, (1983)
Holt, E , The Carlist Wars in Spain, (1967)
Tomas, M , Ramon Cabrera (Historia de un Hombre), (1939)

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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.