WISH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104115
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: WISH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: WISH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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Date:: 2003-08-19
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104115
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: WISH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: WISH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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:: WISH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Farway
National Grid Reference:: SY 17246 96450

Details

SY 19 NE FARWAY CHURCH GREEN

Wish chest tomb approximately 2 3/75 metres south of the tower of - church of St Michael GV II

Chest tomb. Dated 1767 in memory of William Wish. Beerstone ashlar. Chest tomb is rectangular in plan on a moulded plinth under a flat lid with richly moulded edges. On the corners there are clasping fluted pilasters and the sides contain rectangular fielded panels. The panel on the north side is inscribed with Roman serif upper and lower case lettering and includes some italics. It records the death of William Wish in 1767, his wife Susanne in 1778 and their son William in 1788.

Listing NGR: SY1724696450

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Legacy System number:: 88746
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.