TWO IDENTICAL CHEST TOMBS TO EDWARDS FAMILY, IN CHURCHYARD 20 METRES NORTH-EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE

TWO IDENTICAL CHEST TOMBS TO EDWARDS FAMILY, IN CHURCHYARD 20 METRES NORTH-EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, FROME ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1058080
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: TWO IDENTICAL CHEST TOMBS TO EDWARDS FAMILY, IN CHURCHYARD 20 METRES NORTH-EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE
Statutory Address:: TWO IDENTICAL CHEST TOMBS TO EDWARDS FAMILY, IN CHURCHYARD 20 METRES NORTH-EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, FROME ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1058080
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: TWO IDENTICAL CHEST TOMBS TO EDWARDS FAMILY, IN CHURCHYARD 20 METRES NORTH-EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE
Statutory Address 1:: TWO IDENTICAL CHEST TOMBS TO EDWARDS FAMILY, IN CHURCHYARD 20 METRES NORTH-EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, FROME ROAD

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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:: TWO IDENTICAL CHEST TOMBS TO EDWARDS FAMILY, IN CHURCHYARD 20 METRES NORTH-EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, FROME ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Rode
National Grid Reference:: ST 80834 53403

Details

ST8053 RODE CP FROME ROAD (South East side)

13/350 Two identical chest tombs to Edwards Family, in churchyard 20 metres North-East of chancel, Church of St Laurence -

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Two identical chest tombs to Edwards Family. Circa 1778. Each an ashlar chest on a moulded plinth, 3 three quarter Tuscan columns to North and South sides, 2 further columns to East and West ends; shields in relief with dedicatory inscriptions, earliest to Edith Edwards, 1698, reinterred 1778 upon the death of John Edwards Junior when both tombs were constructed.

Listing NGR: ST8083453403

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Legacy System number:: 267297
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.