ANONYMOUS HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 11 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

ANONYMOUS HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 11 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1097518
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: ANONYMOUS HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 11 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: ANONYMOUS HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 11 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1097518
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: ANONYMOUS HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 11 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: ANONYMOUS HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 11 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH HILL

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:: ANONYMOUS HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 11 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH HILL

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Otterton
National Grid Reference:: SY 08024 85134

Details

OTTERTON CHURCH HILL, Otterton SY 0885 7/135 Anonymous headstone approximately - 11 metres south-south-east of tower of Church of St Michael GV II Headstone. Dated 1739 and although the full legend is legible no name is mentioned. Limestone. Upright slab standing approximately 800 mm high with shaped head. The flat front has a moulded frame terminating in a bifurcated scroll at the top. Below this is a winged cherub head in low relief. The inscription is in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering. It records the death of an anonymous lady in 1739 finishing with a biblical quote. Though worn the inscription is legible and most unusual in that no name is recorded. It begins: 'Here lyeth the body of her who departed this life....(etc)'.

Listing NGR: SY0802485134

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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.