Free Standing Wall Monuments to Mayhew/garrett Families and Wall Monument and 5 Chest Tombs About 30 Metres South West of Church of St Laurence
FREE STANDING WALL MONUMENTS TO MAYHEW/GARRETT FAMILIES AND WALL MONUMENT AND 5 CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 30 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085368
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Free Standing Wall Monuments to Mayhew/garrett Families and Wall Monument and 5 Chest Tombs About 30 Metres South West of Church of St Laurence
- Statutory Address:
- FREE STANDING WALL MONUMENTS TO MAYHEW/GARRETT FAMILIES AND WALL MONUMENT AND 5 CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 30 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085368
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Free Standing Wall Monuments to Mayhew/garrett Families and Wall Monument and 5 Chest Tombs About 30 Metres South West of Church of St Laurence
- Statutory Address 1:
- FREE STANDING WALL MONUMENTS TO MAYHEW/GARRETT FAMILIES AND WALL MONUMENT AND 5 CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 30 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, HIGH STREET
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FREE STANDING WALL MONUMENTS TO MAYHEW/GARRETT FAMILIES AND WALL MONUMENT AND 5 CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 30 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Thanet (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ramsgate
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 36984 65306
Details
RAMSGATE HIGH STREET TR 3665 SE ST. LAWRENCE (north-west side) 6/205 Free standing wall monuments to Mayhew/ Garrett families and wall monument and 5 chest tombs about 30 metres south west of Church of St. Laurence GV II Free standing wall monuments to Mayhew/Garrett families. Late C18 and early C19. Stock brick wall, rendered, with stone plaques and iron rails. Five pedimented plaques with Coats of Arms in pediments, 2 with incised Doric pilasters, 3 with fluted Ionic pilasters set against a rendered wall, about 6 feet high and 20 feet long, with a paved forecourt, enclosed with spear-headed rails with urn finialed principals (some panels missing, but lying against the monuments). Chest tomb to Thomas Lindsey jnr, d.1810, about 5 metres west of Mayhew/Garret monument. Moulded base with large baluster corner piers, reeded and incised panels and moulded and inscribed top slab with Arms. Railed. Tomb chest about 3 metres south of Mayhew/Garrett monument, with large baluster corner piers and moulded oval incised side panels. Top slab inscribed, but illegible, with Arms. Spear headed rails with urn finial principals, slightly damaged by tree growth. Wall monument to Hannah Goatley, d.1749, restored 1931 by Rev. George Henniker-Gotley. Brick tabernacle background , originally rendered, with marble monument, with simple apron, inscription plaque, fluted pilasters and triglyph frieze to cornice, with obelisk background and urn finial to relief of 2 putti lifting drapes falling from baldacchino from Arms cartouche. Tomb chest to George Rainier Jnr. d.1762, about 5 metres east of Mayhew/Garrett monument. Moulded plinth to chest with squat creeded and fluted baluster corner piers, with chamfered curving raised and fielded side panels and moulded top slab inscribed and with relief of flaming urn and olive branch. Originally railed. Railed tomb chest about 5 metres east of Mayhew/Garrett monument. Early C19. Chamfered plinth, with quatrefoil frieze to cusped pointed arcaded side panels with moulded top slab. Spiked rails with lobed spiked principals. Tomb chest to Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Huntingdon (d.1846, adjacent to the last. Unrailed, on platform, with cusped arcaded side panels and moulded and inscribed top slab.
Listing NGR: TR3698465306
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 171834
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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