GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES, 12 METRES AND 10 METRES NORTH OF NORTH TRANSEPT OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES, 12 METRES AND 10 METRES NORTH OF NORTH TRANSEPT OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1053047
Date first listed:: 03-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES, 12 METRES AND 10 METRES NORTH OF NORTH TRANSEPT OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES, 12 METRES AND 10 METRES NORTH OF NORTH TRANSEPT OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH GREEN

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Date:: 2005-08-23
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1053047
Date first listed:: 03-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES, 12 METRES AND 10 METRES NORTH OF NORTH TRANSEPT OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES, 12 METRES AND 10 METRES NORTH OF NORTH TRANSEPT OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH GREEN

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:: GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES, 12 METRES AND 10 METRES NORTH OF NORTH TRANSEPT OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH GREEN

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Witney
National Grid Reference:: SP 35597 09267

Details

WITNEY CHURCH GREEN SP35095 (South side) 11/44 Group of 6 chest tombs approx. l5m., 12m. and l0m. N of N transept of Church of St. Mary GV II

6 chest tombs, Chest tomb approximately 15 metres north. Dated 1803. Limestone. Plain, with raised plinth and moulded cornice. Chest tomb approximately 12 metres north. Mid C18. Limestone. Plain, with splayed cornice. Commemorates Thomas Collins, d.1788 and another Thomas, d,1829. 4 chest tombs approximately 10 metres north. Early/mid C18. Limestone. Mid C18 tomb to south-west has cavetto-moulded plinth and cornice and fielded inscription panels, Early C18 Collins tomb to east has deep cyma-moulded plinth and cornice. Early C18 tomb to south-east has raised corner pilasters, revealed inscription panel and moulded cornices. Mid C18 tomb to north-east has winged cherub's heads and rosettes to pilasters flanking revealed inscription panel; moulded plinth and cornice.

Listing NGR: SP3559509271

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Legacy System number:: 252602
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.