GROUP OF 4 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 7,8,9 AND 11 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

GROUP OF 4 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 7,8,9 AND 11 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, NORTH SIDE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066018
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 4 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 7,8,9 AND 11 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 4 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 7,8,9 AND 11 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, NORTH SIDE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066018
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 4 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 7,8,9 AND 11 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 4 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 7,8,9 AND 11 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, NORTH SIDE

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:: GROUP OF 4 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 7,8,9 AND 11 METRES SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, NORTH SIDE

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Steeple Aston
National Grid Reference:: SP4761426061

Details

STEEPLE ASTON NORTH SIDE SP4726 (North side) 8/109 Group of 4 headstones approx. 7,8,9 and 11m S of chancel of Church of St. Peter and St. Paul GV II

Group of 4 headstones, c.1657, 1693, 1696 and early C19. Limestone and marlstone. (i) Small limestone headstone with a cambered head has a raised surround in a crenellated design and is inscribed "1657/KB". (ii) Plain early-C19 marlstone headstone with a worn inscription. (iii) Marlstone headstone in Baroque style has a scrolled pedimented head above a long rectangular panel flanked by vigorously-carved flower drops. Inscription commemorates Elinor Forrest (died 1696). (iv) Small marlstone headstone with a shaped head and a recessed inscription panel. Inscription is largely illegible but includes the date 1693/4, Headstone (ii) is not of special architectural interest.

Listing NGR: SP4761426061

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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.