GROUP OF 3 UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENTS AND CHAMBERS MONUMENT,ABOUT 3M NORTH-WEST OF NORTH-WEST TOWER BUTTRESS IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST KENELM

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1090615
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 3 UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENTS AND CHAMBERS MONUMENT,ABOUT 3M NORTH-WEST OF NORTH-WEST TOWER BUTTRESS IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST KENELM
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 3 UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENTS AND CHAMBERS MONUMENT,ABOUT 3M NORTH-WEST OF NORTH-WEST TOWER BUTTRESS IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST KENELM

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1090615
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 3 UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENTS AND CHAMBERS MONUMENT,ABOUT 3M NORTH-WEST OF NORTH-WEST TOWER BUTTRESS IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST KENELM
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 3 UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENTS AND CHAMBERS MONUMENT,ABOUT 3M NORTH-WEST OF NORTH-WEST TOWER BUTTRESS IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST KENELM

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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Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 3 UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENTS AND CHAMBERS MONUMENT,ABOUT 3M NORTH-WEST OF NORTH-WEST TOWER BUTTRESS IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST KENELM

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Alderley
National Grid Reference:: ST 76836 90813

Details

ST 79 SE ALDERLEY ALDERLEY VILLAGE

8/13 Group of 3 Unidentified Monuments & Chambers monument, about 3m north- west of north-west tower buttress in churchyard of Church of St. Kenelm.

GV II

Group of 4 closely set chest tombs. 2 end tombs, including Chambers, C17; 2 centre tombs early C18. Flat tops, no plinth visible. From south to north: 1. Plain sides and ends, eroded inscription carved on top. Shallow. 2. Moulded capping, simple moulded ends with rectangular inscription panels. Long sides have central square panel and 2 narrow flanking panels, all very plain. 3. Lyre ends with oval inscription panels. Sides divided into 2 panels with 2 ovals surrounded by acanthus leaves. (Only one such panel on south side.) 4. Plain moulded top, sides divided into recessed rectangular panels, that to left on north side has inscription in capitals as follows: "HEER LYETH THE BODYE / OF ROBERT CHAMBERS / OF BATH WHO DECEASED / THE __________ OF NOVEM AN / ________". Shallow.

Listing NGR: ST7683690813

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Legacy System number:: 132158
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.