MONUMENT TO RANSLEY FAMILY, ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE

MONUMENT TO RANSLEY FAMILY, ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, THE CORNER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1071204
Date first listed:: 09-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT TO RANSLEY FAMILY, ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
Statutory Address:: MONUMENT TO RANSLEY FAMILY, ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, THE CORNER

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1071204
Date first listed:: 09-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT TO RANSLEY FAMILY, ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
Statutory Address 1:: MONUMENT TO RANSLEY FAMILY, ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, THE CORNER

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:: MONUMENT TO RANSLEY FAMILY, ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, THE CORNER

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

County:: Kent
District:: Ashford (District Authority)
Parish:: Ruckinge
National Grid Reference:: TR 02493 33524

Details

TR 03 SW RUCKINGE THE CORNER (south side) 6/102 Monument to Ransley family, about 10 metres south-east of Church of St. Mary Magdalene GV II Monument to James and William Ransley, d.1800. Wood and iron. Simple wooden plank supported by spear-finialled iron posts at either end and by central iron split-post. The board may have been originally painted with an inscription. James and William Ransley were members of the Aldington gang, led by Cephas Quested and George Ransley, and were hanged 1800 for smuggling offences, the local influence of the Ransleys (born in nearby Ransley Cottage) such that they were accorded honourable burial in the churchyard. The Aldington gang inspired the G.P.R. James novel The Smugglers and Russel Thorndike's series of Dr. Syn adventures. (See Waugh Smuggling in Kent and Sussex).

Listing NGR: TR0260733627

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Legacy System number:: 181688
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Waugh, M, Smuggling in Kent and Sussex 1700-1890, (1985)

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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.