FIVE MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 OR 3 METRES SOUTH WEST OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY

FIVE MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 OR 3 METRES SOUTH WEST OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056998
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: FIVE MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 OR 3 METRES SOUTH WEST OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: FIVE MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 OR 3 METRES SOUTH WEST OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056998
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: FIVE MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 OR 3 METRES SOUTH WEST OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: FIVE MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 OR 3 METRES SOUTH WEST OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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:: FIVE MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 OR 3 METRES SOUTH WEST OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Seavington St. Mary
National Grid Reference:: ST 40285 14914

Details

SEAVINGTON ST MARY CP CHURCH LANE (East side) ST41SW 5/69 Five monuments in churchyard, about 2 or 3 metres south-west of porch, Church of St Mary

GV II

Chest tomb and four headstones nearby: a) Unidentified chest tomb about 2 metres south west of porch. Later C17. Ham stone. Moulded plinth; baluster-moulded ends, with panels on flanks having egg-and-dart moulding, no frieze; deep moulded coving to shallow-hipped top having moulded leading edges. Inscription badly worn. b) Hutchings headstone about one metre east of chest tomb. Early C18. Ham stone, about 700mm x 1000mm x 120mm thick, with chamfered back: open segmental- arched head with skull 'keystone' and side scrolls, egg-and-dart undermould; sides have quasi-Ionic pilaster. Commemorates Mary Hutchinqs, death date not readable, c) Unidentified headstone about one metre south of last. Early C18. Ham stone, about 650mm x 850mm x 90mm thick; with chamfered back: semi-circular-arched head with side scrolls, flat face with inscribed decoration: commemorates John - , died - d) Unidentified headstone immediately south of last. Early C18. Ham stone, about 700mm x 850mm x 100mm thick, chamfered back, as item c) but top recessed with angel head. Inscription badly worn. e) Unidentified headstone about one metre south-west of chest tomb. Early C18. Ham stone, about one metre x one metre x 140mm thick, chamfered back; almost flat top, with semi-circular arched recesses having angel heads, side scrolls; wave-mould frame with partial cental drop. Inscription badly worn.

Listing NGR: ST4028514914

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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.