FRYER MONUMENT, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1068547
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: FRYER MONUMENT, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address:: FRYER MONUMENT, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

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Date:: 2002-09-24
Reference:: IOE01/08889/21
Rights:: © Dr Richard F. Skinner. Source: Historic England Archive

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1068547
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: FRYER MONUMENT, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address 1:: FRYER MONUMENT, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

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:: FRYER MONUMENT, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Westbury-on-Severn
National Grid Reference:: SO 71726 13908

Details

SO 71 SW WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN WESTBURY VILLAGE

11/255 Fryer monument, in churchyard, about 6m south-east of south-east corner of tower, Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

GV II

Chest tomb: mid C18; stone. Plain lid with chamfered edge. Corners, quarter-square gadrooned balusters with scrolls on bulbous base. North face main centre flanked by narrow panels: head with wings in centre, drapery thence caught up with bows in top corners and falling down sides to frame lettering. Flanking sections tendrils, fruits and flowers. South side has rococo edge to central panel, with bows and falling drapery in flanking ones; weathered. West end raised margin, decorative carving ending in 2 scrolls at bottom; east end raised margin, with serpent of eternity surrounding hourglass, scroll stand below, above fronds. Splayed plinth. South inscription weathered off, north to Mary, daughter of James and Elizabeth Fryer, died 1760.

Listing NGR: SO7172613908

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Legacy System number:: 354333
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.