THOMAS KNIGHT CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060497
Date first listed:: 17-May-1985
List Entry Name:: THOMAS KNIGHT CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: THOMAS KNIGHT CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Date:: 2001-06-24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060497
Date first listed:: 17-May-1985
List Entry Name:: THOMAS KNIGHT CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: THOMAS KNIGHT CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY

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:: THOMAS KNIGHT CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kingston St. Mary
National Grid Reference:: ST 22304 29700

Details

ST2229 KINGSTON ST MARY CP KINGSTON ST MARY VILLAGE

12/113 Thomas Knight chest tomb, in churchyard about 2 metres South East of chancel, Church of St Mary

GV II

Chest tomb. Early C18, with aid C19 addition. Ham Stone with lias panels. Ledger topped, apsidal ends, moulded cornice, moulded surrounds to panels including inset lias panels at shallow bowed ends, moulded plinth, set on podium, largely grassed over. Inscribed on all fronts though East front eroded; South front fine lettering to Thomas Knight died 1715; North front to Sarah, wife of Richard Edward, died 1854.

Listing NGR: ST2230429700

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Legacy System number:: 270624
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.