GROUP OF SEVEN MONUMENTS IN THE CHURCHYARD, BETWEEN 2 AND 9 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1036536
Date first listed:: 05-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF SEVEN MONUMENTS IN THE CHURCHYARD, BETWEEN 2 AND 9 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF SEVEN MONUMENTS IN THE CHURCHYARD, BETWEEN 2 AND 9 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1036536
Date first listed:: 05-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF SEVEN MONUMENTS IN THE CHURCHYARD, BETWEEN 2 AND 9 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF SEVEN MONUMENTS IN THE CHURCHYARD, BETWEEN 2 AND 9 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH

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Statutory Address:: GROUP OF SEVEN MONUMENTS IN THE CHURCHYARD, BETWEEN 2 AND 9 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH

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District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Corsley
National Grid Reference:: ST 82880 46719

Details

CORSLEY CORSLEY VILLAGE ST 84 NW (north side) 7/72 Group of seven monuments in the churchyard, between 2 and 9m south of Church of St Margaret of Antioch GV II Seven chest tombs. Late C18 to mid C19. Five tombs are limestone, two tombs are blue lias. West of group is to Ann Everett died 1819 with two shaped panels with fan-carved spandrels, frieze with rosettes and raised lozenge decoration and fielded pilasters, moulded flat top. Tomb to Nicholas Eyres died 1781 is same style as tomb in railed enclosure (q.v.). Blue lias tombs to Robert Meares died 1779 and Alicia Knight died 1838, the former with shaped panels and reeded pilasters, the latter plainer and with illegible inscription to flat top. Three C18 tombs to east have two panels to main sides, the southerly one with pulvinated frieze, the next north has relief-carved floral centre panel and plain frieze, Weeks tomb nearest church has beaded panels, quarter balusters and fluted frieze with rosettes, partly illegible inscriptions.

Listing NGR: ST8288046719

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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.