TWO HEADSTONES: TO ISAAC BEN BENJAMIN AND TO ALEXANDER MOSES, IN SOUTH OF THE JEWISH CEMETERY

TWO HEADSTONES: TO ISAAC BEN BENJAMIN AND TO ALEXANDER MOSES, IN SOUTH OF THE JEWISH CEMETERY, FALMOUTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1061396
Date first listed:: 24-Jul-2002
List Entry Name:: TWO HEADSTONES: TO ISAAC BEN BENJAMIN AND TO ALEXANDER MOSES, IN SOUTH OF THE JEWISH CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: TWO HEADSTONES: TO ISAAC BEN BENJAMIN AND TO ALEXANDER MOSES, IN SOUTH OF THE JEWISH CEMETERY, FALMOUTH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1061396
Date first listed:: 24-Jul-2002
List Entry Name:: TWO HEADSTONES: TO ISAAC BEN BENJAMIN AND TO ALEXANDER MOSES, IN SOUTH OF THE JEWISH CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: TWO HEADSTONES: TO ISAAC BEN BENJAMIN AND TO ALEXANDER MOSES, IN SOUTH OF THE JEWISH CEMETERY, FALMOUTH 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 HEADSTONES: TO ISAAC BEN BENJAMIN AND TO ALEXANDER MOSES, IN SOUTH OF THE JEWISH CEMETERY, FALMOUTH ROAD

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Falmouth
National Grid Reference:: SW 79459 33851, SW 79460 33851

Details

FALMOUTH

843-1/0/10009 FALMOUTH ROAD 24-JUL-02 Ponsharden Two headstones: to Isaac ben Benjamin and to Alexander Moses, in south of the Jewish Cemetery

II

Headstones in Jewish cemetery. 1790: to Isaac ben Benjamin. 1791: to Alexander Moses. Both are slate headstones with nowy heads, moulded arrises and with dates and inscriptions on fronts in Hebrew. The Jewish community was established in Falmouth in about 1740 by Alexander Moses, known as 'Zender Falmouth'. The Jewish Cemetery and the adjacent Congregational cemetery are on land granted by Lord de Dunstanville later in the C18. SOURCE: Fry, H. and Pearce, K., Lost Jews of Cornwall, pp.101-129.

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Legacy System number:: 489635
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.