DICKY PEARCE MONUMENT,ABOUT 7M NORTH-EAST OF PHILLIPS MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

DICKY PEARCE MONUMENT,ABOUT 7M NORTH-EAST OF PHILLIPS MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1090613
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: DICKY PEARCE MONUMENT,ABOUT 7M NORTH-EAST OF PHILLIPS MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: DICKY PEARCE MONUMENT,ABOUT 7M NORTH-EAST OF PHILLIPS MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1090613
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: DICKY PEARCE MONUMENT,ABOUT 7M NORTH-EAST OF PHILLIPS MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: DICKY PEARCE MONUMENT,ABOUT 7M NORTH-EAST OF PHILLIPS MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

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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:: DICKY PEARCE MONUMENT,ABOUT 7M NORTH-EAST OF PHILLIPS MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

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County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Berkeley
National Grid Reference:: ST 68483 99076

Details

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

10/117 Dicky Pearce m.onument, about 7m north-east of Phillips Monument in churchyard of Church of St. Mary the Virgin.

GV II

Chest tomb, Dicky Pearce, died 1725. Limestone. Flat top in two layers, top layer with tooled edge, lower layer roll moulded. Tooled plinth and base in elongated octagon. Recessed arched panels on all faces, with coats of arms to east and west and inscriptions to north and south. The so-called "Jester's Tomb". Dicky Pearce was the Berkeley Court Jester killed in revelry at the Castle (q.v.) in 1725, although the tomb verse inscription gives the date of death wrongly as 1728. Inscription in capitals on north side as follows: "Here lies the Earl of Suffolk's fool/ Men call'd him Dicky Pearce;/ His folly serv'd to make folks laugh, /When wit and mirth were scarce./ Poor Dick Alas! is dead and gone./ What signifies to cry?/ Dickys enough are still behind/ To laugh at by and by./ Buried XVIII June MDCC XXVIII/ Aged LXIII years."

Listing NGR: ST6848399076

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Legacy System number:: 132258
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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.