TWO MONOLITHS CIRCA 30 METRES NORTH OF PRESCOTT HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1091655
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: TWO MONOLITHS CIRCA 30 METRES NORTH OF PRESCOTT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: TWO MONOLITHS CIRCA 30 METRES NORTH OF PRESCOTT HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1091655
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: TWO MONOLITHS CIRCA 30 METRES NORTH OF PRESCOTT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: TWO MONOLITHS CIRCA 30 METRES NORTH OF PRESCOTT HOUSE

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:: TWO MONOLITHS CIRCA 30 METRES NORTH OF PRESCOTT HOUSE

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Prescott
National Grid Reference:: SO 98324 29287

Details

SO 92 NE PRESCOTT -

8/145 Two monoliths c30m north of Prescott House

II

Two monoliths. Limestone. Set c8m apart. Each stone is c2m in height, 0.5m wide and tapers towards the top. The stones are said to have come from the Belas Knap chambered tomb and to mark the graves of Lord Ellenborough's two Indian concubines who lived in Prescott House (q.v. monument to Lord Ellenborough Oxenton Church and The De la Bere Hotel).

Listing NGR: SO9832429287

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Legacy System number:: 135239
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.