COLEMAN FAMILY CHEST TOMB AT NGR ST 2868 1956 ABOUT 23 METRES EAST OF ENTRANCE TO FORMER CHURCHYARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060434
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: COLEMAN FAMILY CHEST TOMB AT NGR ST 2868 1956 ABOUT 23 METRES EAST OF ENTRANCE TO FORMER CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address:: COLEMAN FAMILY CHEST TOMB AT NGR ST 2868 1956 ABOUT 23 METRES EAST OF ENTRANCE TO FORMER CHURCHYARD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060434
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: COLEMAN FAMILY CHEST TOMB AT NGR ST 2868 1956 ABOUT 23 METRES EAST OF ENTRANCE TO FORMER CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address 1:: COLEMAN FAMILY CHEST TOMB AT NGR ST 2868 1956 ABOUT 23 METRES EAST OF ENTRANCE TO FORMER CHURCHYARD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: COLEMAN FAMILY CHEST TOMB AT NGR ST 2868 1956 ABOUT 23 METRES EAST OF ENTRANCE TO FORMER CHURCHYARD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bickenhall
National Grid Reference:: ST 28658 19571

Details

BICKENHALL CP ST2lNE

8/1 Coleman family chest tomb at NGR ST 2868 1956, about 23 east of entrance to former churchyard -

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Chest tomb. Mid C18. Ham stone. Ledger topped, cyma recta moulded cornice, moulded plinth, inscribed on all faces, south to Mary wife of Richard Coleman died 1754, west to John Bugg died 1757. Cornice slightly damaged, partially sunk but good lettering. Forms part of a good group of chest tombs in the former churchyard of Bickenhall Church. The church was in a delapidated condition when the rector, the Rev Portman, had it demolished in 1849 and rebuilt at his own expense nearer his rectory in Staple Fitzpaine. (Sixmith, Staple Fitzpaine and the Forest of Neroche, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST2868019560

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 270781
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Sixsmith, , Staple Fitzpaine and the Forest of Neroche, (1958)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.