UNKNOWN MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD 14 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

UNKNOWN MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD 14 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1058836
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: UNKNOWN MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD 14 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: UNKNOWN MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD 14 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1058836
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: UNKNOWN MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD 14 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: UNKNOWN MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD 14 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH 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:: UNKNOWN MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD 14 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lydford-on-Fosse
National Grid Reference:: ST5649331862

Details

ST53SE 10/92

LYDFORD-ON-FOSSE CP HIGH STREET (West side) WEST LYDFORD Unknown monument in the churchyard 14 metres south of chancel of Church of St. Peter

GV II

Chest tomb. C17 Dressed lias and Ham stone. Classic oblong chest on a moulded plinth; (plinth buried at time of re-survey, August 1984); chest with elaborate scroll decoration to east and west ends; that to east end surrounding a clover-roof cross, that to west end a blank oval panel; south side with fluted end pilasters, north side with end pilasters with cherubic heads in relief; a lias panel inset between each pair of pilasters, that to north with the remains of an inscription. Hipped slab top cavetto moulded around its lower edge.

Listing NGR: ST5649331862

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Legacy System number:: 267564
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.