TOMB OF BISHOP KEN OUTSIDE EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN

TOMB OF BISHOP KEN OUTSIDE EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN, BATH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1057889
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1983
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF BISHOP KEN OUTSIDE EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN
Statutory Address:: TOMB OF BISHOP KEN OUTSIDE EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN, BATH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1057889
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1983
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF BISHOP KEN OUTSIDE EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB OF BISHOP KEN OUTSIDE EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN, BATH STREET

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:: TOMB OF BISHOP KEN OUTSIDE EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN, BATH STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Frome
National Grid Reference:: ST 77733 47899

Details

1. 5363 BATH STREET (East side)

Tomb of Bishop Ken 10/113 outside east end of Church of St John II

2. Mid C19 housing to early C18 grave. Significant position outside the chancel. Low gabled housing built, buttressed and roofed in stone with open cusped side arches closed by wrought-iron palisades. The interior has a coffin-shaped slab with empty metal banding over with only a crozier and a mitre on it. Bishop Ken (1637-1711) was one of the seven Bishops who refused the oath of Indulgence 1689 to William and Mary and was consequently deprived of his See of Bath and Wells. Hence the symbolism: an empty grave, and empty coffin, outside the church.

Listing NGR: ST7773347899

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Legacy System number:: 266037
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.