CHEST TOMB TO WILLIAM GRANTHAM APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES WEST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST HELEN

CHEST TOMB TO WILLIAM GRANTHAM APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES WEST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST HELEN, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1059369
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: CHEST TOMB TO WILLIAM GRANTHAM APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES WEST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST HELEN
Statutory Address:: CHEST TOMB TO WILLIAM GRANTHAM APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES WEST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST HELEN, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1059369
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: CHEST TOMB TO WILLIAM GRANTHAM APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES WEST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST HELEN
Statutory Address 1:: CHEST TOMB TO WILLIAM GRANTHAM APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES WEST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST HELEN, CHURCH ROAD

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:: CHEST TOMB TO WILLIAM GRANTHAM APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES WEST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST HELEN, CHURCH ROAD

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Benson
National Grid Reference:: SU 61491 91631

Details

BENSON CHURCH ROAD SU6191 (North side) 7/41 Chest tomb to William Grantham approx. 5m. W of tower of Church of St. Helen

GV II

Chest tomb. c.1772. Stone. Square plan. Neoclassical style. Rectangular inscribed panels to each face flanked by Ionic pilasters supporting frieze with sunflower triglyphs. Dentil cornice. Shallow pyramidal roof with urn.

Listing NGR: SU6149191631

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Legacy System number:: 247750
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.