GROUP OF 7 MONUMENTS TO ILES AND ARKELL FAMILIES, IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF SOUTH NAVE WALL IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

GROUP OF 7 MONUMENTS TO ILES AND ARKELL FAMILIES, IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF SOUTH NAVE WALL IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, KEMPSFORD VILLAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1089452
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 7 MONUMENTS TO ILES AND ARKELL FAMILIES, IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF SOUTH NAVE WALL IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 7 MONUMENTS TO ILES AND ARKELL FAMILIES, IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF SOUTH NAVE WALL IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, KEMPSFORD VILLAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1089452
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 7 MONUMENTS TO ILES AND ARKELL FAMILIES, IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF SOUTH NAVE WALL IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 7 MONUMENTS TO ILES AND ARKELL FAMILIES, IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF SOUTH NAVE WALL IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, KEMPSFORD VILLAGE

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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:: GROUP OF 7 MONUMENTS TO ILES AND ARKELL FAMILIES, IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF SOUTH NAVE WALL IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, KEMPSFORD VILLAGE

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:: Kempsford
National Grid Reference:: SU 16131 96491

Details

SU 19 NE KEMPSFORD KEMPSFORD VILLAGE (south side)

8/96 Group of 7 monuments to Iles and Arkell families, immediately south of south nave wall in church- yard of St. Mary the Virgin

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Group of 7 chest tombs. Late C18 to mid C19. All limestone with moulded plinth and capping on base. Recessed or fielded rectangular panels to ends and sides, all with flanking fluted strips to sides. Some side panels have elaborately carved cartouches for inscriptions, most of which are legible. Two-step tent tops with curved edges and flattened tops. The only exception to the group description is tomb furthest to south-west, Daniel Iles, died 1824, which has no visible base, a fluted frieze and 3-step tent top with uppermost step with straight edges. In 3 rows, from east to west and reading from south to north: Row 1: Hannah Arkell died 1818, Daniel Iles died 1824. Row 2: Dorothy Arkell died 1780, John Arkell died 1797, Thomas Arkell died 1839. Row 3: William Iles died 1850, William Arkell died 1831.

Listing NGR: SU1613296489

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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.