117 MEMORIALS SOUTH OF LINE EAST FROM SOUTH EAST CORNER OF CHANCEL AND EAST OF PATH TO SOUTH PORCH AT CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075266
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: 117 MEMORIALS SOUTH OF LINE EAST FROM SOUTH EAST CORNER OF CHANCEL AND EAST OF PATH TO SOUTH PORCH AT CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: 117 MEMORIALS SOUTH OF LINE EAST FROM SOUTH EAST CORNER OF CHANCEL AND EAST OF PATH TO SOUTH PORCH AT CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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Date:: 2001-01-26
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075266
Date first listed:: 24-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: 117 MEMORIALS SOUTH OF LINE EAST FROM SOUTH EAST CORNER OF CHANCEL AND EAST OF PATH TO SOUTH PORCH AT CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: 117 MEMORIALS SOUTH OF LINE EAST FROM SOUTH EAST CORNER OF CHANCEL AND EAST OF PATH TO SOUTH PORCH AT CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Statutory Address:: 117 MEMORIALS SOUTH OF LINE EAST FROM SOUTH EAST CORNER OF CHANCEL AND EAST OF PATH TO SOUTH PORCH AT CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Woodford cum Membris
National Grid Reference:: SP 54319 52860

Details

WOODFORD CUM MEMBRIS WOODFORD HALSE SP5452 18/155 117 memorials S of line E from SE corner of chancel and E of path to S porch at Church of St. Mary the Virgin GV II Chest tombs and headstones. Late C17 - C19. Ironstone and limestone. 3 chest tombs approx. 1m. south of chancel: dates 1762; 1806; and late C18 with baluster corners. Row of 5 headstones approx. 3 m. east of south-east corner of chancel: late C17/early C18: four with cherubs heads in broken pediments and one with kneeling figure, swags and winged skulls. Headstone approx. 5m south-east of south-east corner: 1718, with hourglass. 3 chest tombs approx. 4m. north of south wall: all with baluster corners: dated 1817; 1826; and late C18. Chest tomb approx. 5m. south of south-east corner of south aisle: dated 1721; baluster corners and cartouches at ends. 4 headstones approx. 6m. south of south aisle: late C17/early C18: 2 with swags and 2 with broken pediments. 2 headstones approx. 3m. south of south aisle: one dated 1695 with winged hourglass; the other dated 1708 with cherubs head in broken pediment. The other memorials of late C18/C19 are not of special architectural interest.

Listing NGR: SP5431952860

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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.