JOHNS HEADSTONE ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST LEONARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104686
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: JOHNS HEADSTONE ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
Statutory Address:: JOHNS HEADSTONE ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST LEONARD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104686
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: JOHNS HEADSTONE ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
Statutory Address 1:: JOHNS HEADSTONE ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST LEONARD

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:: JOHNS HEADSTONE ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST LEONARD

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

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Clawton
National Grid Reference:: SX 34839 99229

Details

SX 39 NW CLAWTON CHURCHTOWN

2/20 Johns headstone about 20m south of the tower of the Church of St Leonard -

GV II

Headstone. Early C19. Slate. Rectangular headstone commemorating Joseph Johns, died 1813. Scratch mouldings round the border and forming a round-headed arch with rustic trumpeting angels in the spandrels. A 3 stanza verse below the inscription includes the graphic lines "In pain and sickness long I lay/My flesh and lungs consumed away/Once like a flowerI did bloom/But now lie mouldred in this tomb/". A fine example of local slate-cutting with a personal verse.

Listing NGR: SX3483599250

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Legacy System number:: 90675
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.