PARSONS CHEST TOMB, SURROUNDING RAILINGS, WALL AND ADJACENT DOORWAY, IN CHURCHYARD 32 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

PARSONS CHEST TOMB, SURROUNDING RAILINGS, WALL AND ADJACENT DOORWAY, IN CHURCHYARD 32 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, MAIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056325
Date first listed:: 15-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: PARSONS CHEST TOMB, SURROUNDING RAILINGS, WALL AND ADJACENT DOORWAY, IN CHURCHYARD 32 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address:: PARSONS CHEST TOMB, SURROUNDING RAILINGS, WALL AND ADJACENT DOORWAY, IN CHURCHYARD 32 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, MAIN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056325
Date first listed:: 15-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: PARSONS CHEST TOMB, SURROUNDING RAILINGS, WALL AND ADJACENT DOORWAY, IN CHURCHYARD 32 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address 1:: PARSONS CHEST TOMB, SURROUNDING RAILINGS, WALL AND ADJACENT DOORWAY, IN CHURCHYARD 32 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, MAIN ROAD

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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Statutory Address:: PARSONS CHEST TOMB, SURROUNDING RAILINGS, WALL AND ADJACENT DOORWAY, IN CHURCHYARD 32 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, MAIN ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Charlton Horethorne
National Grid Reference:: ST6651523113

Details

ST6623 8/39

CHARLTON HORETHORNE CP MAIN ROAD (East side) Parsons Chest Tomb, surrounding railings, wall and adjacent doorway, in churchyard 32 metres North of Church of St Peter and St Paul

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Chest tomb. Early C19. Ham stone, with adjacent rubble walls with ashlar dressings; wrought iron railings. Chest tomb cruciform plan; moulded base on step; panelled sides; hipped top with decorated gables, ridge in form of latin cross. Commerorates George Parsons 1784 - 1845 and other members of the family from the nearby Manor House (qv). Railings about 1.5 metres high with wrought points, on low ashlar stone base, to South and East of tomb : to North and East the boundary walls of the churchyard, about 2.5 metres high with clay tile coping : adjacent to North West corner of enclosure a moulded 4-centre arched doorway, possibly C17, with C19 studded boarded door leading into Manor House garden sufficient of North wall included in this item to protect this doorway.

Listing NGR: ST6651523113

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Legacy System number:: 261775
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.