FOUR MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2, 4, 6 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH TRANSEPT, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

FOUR MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2, 4, 6 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH TRANSEPT, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056961
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: FOUR MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2, 4, 6 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH TRANSEPT, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address:: FOUR MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2, 4, 6 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH TRANSEPT, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056961
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: FOUR MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2, 4, 6 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH TRANSEPT, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address 1:: FOUR MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2, 4, 6 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH TRANSEPT, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, WEST STREET

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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:: FOUR MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2, 4, 6 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH TRANSEPT, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, WEST STREET

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: South Petherton
National Grid Reference:: ST 43243 16844

Details

SOUTH PETHERTON CP WEST STREET (East side) ST4316 7/178 Four monuments in churchyard, about 2, 4, 6 metres south of south transept, Church of St Peter and St Paul

GV II

Three chest tombs and a headstone. a) Unidentified chest tomb about 2 metres south of south transept. C17. Ham stone. Moulded plinth on stepped base; semi-circular ached panels, one each end and 2 each flank, with imposts, keystones and dentilling, no frieze; cyma-recta coving to heavy, slightly hipped top. Inscription badly worn. b) Unidentified headstone immediately south-west of last. C18. Ham stone, about 900mm x 1200mm x 110mm thick, chamfered back; almost flat top with 2 semi-circular panels framing angel heads, with hourglass between and scrolls to sides; frame to panel has curved scroll decoration and central half-drop. Inscriptions badly worn, but one death date 1732. c) Unidentified chest tomb about 4 metres south of south transept. Early C18. Ham stone. Base buried; panels with ovolo mould frames, those to flanks having half-drop to centre, no frieze; moulded coving to hipped top. Commemorates John - died 1719. d) Viles chest tomb about 6 metres south of south transept: later C18. Ham ston. Moulded plinth; one fielded panel each face, single-panel pilasters to flanks, moulded coving to shallow hipped top with rounded leading edges. Commemorates thomas Viles, died 1783.

Listing NGR: ST4324316846

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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.