BOWER HEADSTONE 15 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF SOUTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1041390
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: BOWER HEADSTONE 15 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF SOUTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: BOWER HEADSTONE 15 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF SOUTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1041390
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: BOWER HEADSTONE 15 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF SOUTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: BOWER HEADSTONE 15 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF SOUTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

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:: BOWER HEADSTONE 15 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF SOUTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

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

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Newbiggin by the Sea
National Grid Reference:: NZ 30159 88828

Details

ASHINGTON WOODHORN NZ 38 NW

3/35 Bower heads tone 15 metres south- east of south aisle of Church of St. Mary GV II

Headstone, 1822. Sandstone. Stone with shaped top and inscription to Henry Bower of Ellington, and verse:

Here lies within this hollow span The relicks of an Honest Man The grave, great teacher, to a level brings Heroes and beggars, galley-slaves and kings, Reader! he's flown to seek a purer sky Go live like him, then with his calmness die.

Listing NGR: NZ3015988828

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Legacy System number:: 235906
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.