GROUP OF 3 MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, TO SOUTH-EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST AND ALL SAINTS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056987
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 3 MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, TO SOUTH-EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST AND ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 3 MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, TO SOUTH-EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST AND ALL SAINTS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056987
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 3 MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, TO SOUTH-EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST AND ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 3 MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, TO SOUTH-EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST AND ALL SAINTS

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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:: GROUP OF 3 MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, TO SOUTH-EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST AND ALL SAINTS

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kingstone
National Grid Reference:: ST 37894 13619

Details

ST31SE KINGSTONE CP KINGSTONE VILLAGE

4/35 Group of 3 monuments in churchyard, to south-east of chancel, Church of St. John the Evangelist and All Saints

GV II

Group of 2 chest tombs and a headstone: (a) Chest tomb about 9 metres south-east of chancel: C17. Ham stone. Base buried; single panel each end with ovolo-mould frame, 2 panels each flank, with rather worn pilasters; heavy moulded coving to nearly flat top. Much overgrown, and inscription not accessible. (b) Chest tomb about 11 metres south-east of chancel: Early C18. Ham stone. Base buried; semi-circular arched panels with keystones, inposts and dentilling, one each end and 2 each flank; cyma-recta coving to heavy hipped top. Commemorates ---- ----, died 1708. (c) Double headstone about 13 metres south-south-east of chancel: C18 reuse of C17 stone. Ham stone, size 900mm wide x 1100mm high x 140mm thick; shaped trefoil top; on west face 2 angel-heads with hourglass between and scrolls to sides, carved frame with tasselled centre-drop, commemorating Robert Simpson, died 1784. On east face an inscription to Ivy Harris, wife of Richard Harris, died 1623 - this inscription very deep cut.

Listing NGR: ST3789413619

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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.