MEACHAM CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES NORTH-WEST OF NEWHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1098205
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: MEACHAM CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES NORTH-WEST OF NEWHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH
Statutory Address:: MEACHAM CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES NORTH-WEST OF NEWHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1098205
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: MEACHAM CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES NORTH-WEST OF NEWHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: MEACHAM CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES NORTH-WEST OF NEWHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH

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:: MEACHAM CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES NORTH-WEST OF NEWHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Upottery
National Grid Reference:: ST 19663 09983

Details

UPOTTERY ST 10 NE 6/112 Meacham chest tomb approximately 4 - metres north-west of Newhouse Baptist Church GV II Chest tomb. Dated 1739 in memory of Thomas Meacham. Hamstone. Chest tomb is rectangular in plan with a soffit-moulded lid with low-pitched ridge on top. Any plinth is now buried. The sides have rectangular panels; with bead-moulded surrounds; 2 on each long side and 1 each end. Both southern panels are inscribed with Roman serif upper and lower case lettering. The left panel records the death of Thomas Meacham in 1739 and the right panel records the death of his son, also called Thomas, but no date of death given.

Listing NGR: ST1966309983

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Legacy System number:: 86667
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.