GROUP OF 8 MONUMENTS TO MEMBERS OF THE STOKES FAMILY AND 2 MONUMENTS TO MEMBERS OF THE WARD FAMILY, IN CHURCHYARD ADJACENT TO WEST END OF CHURCH

GROUP OF 8 MONUMENTS TO MEMBERS OF THE STOKES FAMILY AND 2 MONUMENTS TO MEMBERS OF THE WARD FAMILY, IN CHURCHYARD ADJACENT TO WEST END OF CHURCH, CHURCH CLOSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1073686
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 8 MONUMENTS TO MEMBERS OF THE STOKES FAMILY AND 2 MONUMENTS TO MEMBERS OF THE WARD FAMILY, IN CHURCHYARD ADJACENT TO WEST END OF CHURCH
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 8 MONUMENTS TO MEMBERS OF THE STOKES FAMILY AND 2 MONUMENTS TO MEMBERS OF THE WARD FAMILY, IN CHURCHYARD ADJACENT TO WEST END OF CHURCH, CHURCH CLOSE

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Date:: 2003-03-21
Reference:: IOE01/07669/20
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1073686
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 8 MONUMENTS TO MEMBERS OF THE STOKES FAMILY AND 2 MONUMENTS TO MEMBERS OF THE WARD FAMILY, IN CHURCHYARD ADJACENT TO WEST END OF CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 8 MONUMENTS TO MEMBERS OF THE STOKES FAMILY AND 2 MONUMENTS TO MEMBERS OF THE WARD FAMILY, IN CHURCHYARD ADJACENT TO WEST END OF CHURCH, CHURCH CLOSE

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 8 MONUMENTS TO MEMBERS OF THE STOKES FAMILY AND 2 MONUMENTS TO MEMBERS OF THE WARD FAMILY, IN CHURCHYARD ADJACENT TO WEST END OF CHURCH, CHURCH CLOSE

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

District:: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Caldecott
National Grid Reference:: SP 86822 93688

Details

CALDECOTT CHURCH CLOSE SP 8693-8793 11/10 Group of 8 monuments to members of the Stokes family and 2 monuments to members of the Ward family, in churchyard adjacent to W end of church. GV II

Group of 10 chest tombs. Circa 1820-1860. 8 commemorate members of the Stokes family; 2 others, set slightly apart, commemorate members of the Ward family. Limestone ashlar. All have moulded bases and cornice lids, and recessed corners with rectangular balusters. Sides have oval inscription panels, most with carved fan motifs in spandrels. Inscriptions on S sides are nearly all illegible. Tombs make an impressive group.

Listing NGR: SP8682293688

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Legacy System number:: 187543
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.