THOMAS PEARCE MONUMENT,ABOUT 5M NORTH-EAST OF NORTH PORCH DOOR IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

THOMAS PEARCE MONUMENT,ABOUT 5M NORTH-EAST OF NORTH PORCH DOOR IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1090602
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: THOMAS PEARCE MONUMENT,ABOUT 5M NORTH-EAST OF NORTH PORCH DOOR IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: THOMAS PEARCE MONUMENT,ABOUT 5M NORTH-EAST OF NORTH PORCH DOOR IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

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Date:: 2004-08-06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1090602
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: THOMAS PEARCE MONUMENT,ABOUT 5M NORTH-EAST OF NORTH PORCH DOOR IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: THOMAS PEARCE MONUMENT,ABOUT 5M NORTH-EAST OF NORTH PORCH DOOR IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

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:: THOMAS PEARCE MONUMENT,ABOUT 5M NORTH-EAST OF NORTH PORCH DOOR IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Berkeley
National Grid Reference:: ST 68463 99048

Details

ST 69 NE BERKELEY CHURCH LANE (Inset, Section E) (south side)

10/90 Thomas Pearce Monument, about 5m north-east of north porch door in churchyard of Church of St. Mary the Virgin.

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Chest tomb, Thomas Pearce (also spelt Peirce on north side) died 1665, clockmaker and five times Mayor of Berkeley. Limestone. Flat top, apparently inverted with moulding sloping out, wide moulded plinth on base. Plain recessed square panels to ends and south side (divided into 2). Single large panel to north with flanking lyre end reliefs and long verse inscription, as follows: "Here lyeth Thomas peirce, whom no man taught / Yet he in Iron Brasse and Silver wrought / He Jacks and Clocks, and watches (with Art) made / And mended too when others worke did fade / of Berkeley five tymes Mayor this Artist was / And Yet this Mayor this Artist was but Grasse / when his owne watch was Downe on the last Day / He that made watches, had not made A Key / To winde it Up, but Uselesse it must lie / Untill he Rise AGaine no more to die".

Listing NGR: ST6846399048

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Legacy System number:: 132233
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.