CAP OF CHEST TOMB IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD, REUSED AS OUTER STEP TO PRIESTS DOOR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1097151
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: CAP OF CHEST TOMB IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD, REUSED AS OUTER STEP TO PRIESTS DOOR
Statutory Address:: CAP OF CHEST TOMB IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD, REUSED AS OUTER STEP TO PRIESTS DOOR

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Date:: 1999-08-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1097151
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: CAP OF CHEST TOMB IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD, REUSED AS OUTER STEP TO PRIESTS DOOR
Statutory Address 1:: CAP OF CHEST TOMB IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD, REUSED AS OUTER STEP TO PRIESTS DOOR

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CAP OF CHEST TOMB IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD, REUSED AS OUTER STEP TO PRIESTS DOOR

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

County:: Devon
District:: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Bickington
National Grid Reference:: SX 79980 72676

Details

BICKINGTON BICKINGTON SX 77 SE 7/19 Cap of chest tomb in St Mary's - Churchyard, reused as outer step to priest's door GV II

Moulded cap of chest tomb. Late C17. Granite. Carved inscription: "Here lyeth the body of Thomas Hext who was buried ye 28th day of June ano ... 1671" (small piece cut out of centre of stone and filled with cement). Inscription also commemorates his wife Joane, who died in 1696.

Listing NGR: SX7997072670

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Legacy System number:: 85217
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.