Group of 4 Chest Tombs 1 Metre to 4 Metres East of Chancel of Church of St Mary
GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS 1 METRE TO 4 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046387
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Group of 4 Chest Tombs 1 Metre to 4 Metres East of Chancel of Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS 1 METRE TO 4 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046387
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Group of 4 Chest Tombs 1 Metre to 4 Metres East of Chancel of Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS 1 METRE TO 4 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS 1 METRE TO 4 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Adderbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 47113 35379
Details
SP4735 ADDERBURY HIGH STREET (West side) Adderbury East 7/54 Group of 4 chest tombs 1m to 4m E of chancel of Church of St. Mary GV II 4 chest tombs. Late C17, 1705, 1721 and early C18. Marlstone and limestone. The most northerly, a rectangular marlstone chest with deeply-projecting moulded base and cover, has a small fielded inscription panel on each side, a shield on one end, and at the other a surround of drapery enclosing the raised legend "WL/1705". The inscriptions are in Latin and commemorate William, Bishop of Llandaff, formerly Vicar of Adderbury. The next, a plain marlstone chest with shallow incised panels and a moulded base and cover, is probably early C18, but the inscription on the cover is largely illegible. The late-C17 limestone chest, 1 metre east of the south-east buttress, has deep moulded base and cover, and has one side and one end decorated with square panels divided by a central baluster in relief; the other end has an inscription panel, now illegible. To east of it is a rectangular marlstone chest with moulded base and cover, square recessed corner balusters and fielded inscription panels; the earliest inscription commemorates John Lovesey (d.1721).
Listing NGR: SP4711335379
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243776
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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