CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HIGH STREET

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1048343
Date first listed:: 24-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HIGH STREET

User submitted image — Uploaded by Roger Bowdler This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2002-06-12
Reference:: IOE01/05411/17
Rights:: © Mr Roger Cumming. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1048343
Date first listed:: 24-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HIGH STREET

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
Parish:: Cumnor
National Grid Reference:: SP 46168 04157

Details

CUMNOR HIGH STREET SP4605 (South side) 13/35 Chest tomb approx. 20m. NE of chancel of Church of St. Michael GV II Chest tomb. Late C17. Limestone. Splayed plinth and cyma-moulded cornice: slate lozenges left into sides have inscriptions. In memory of Lieutenant William Godfry, d.1694 and a staunch Royalist: one inscription reads "Here/lyeth ye Body/of Lieutenant Willi/am Godfry who faithful/ly served King Charles ye lst/from Edgehill Fight/to ye end of ye/unhappy/wars". (V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.IV, p.403).

Listing NGR: SP4616804157

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 249710
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 403

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.