METHEREL HEADSTONE ABOUT 4 METRES EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GILES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104694
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: METHEREL HEADSTONE ABOUT 4 METRES EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address:: METHEREL HEADSTONE ABOUT 4 METRES EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GILES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104694
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: METHEREL HEADSTONE ABOUT 4 METRES EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address 1:: METHEREL HEADSTONE ABOUT 4 METRES EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GILES

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:: METHEREL HEADSTONE ABOUT 4 METRES EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GILES

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

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: St. Giles on the Heath
National Grid Reference:: SX 35379 90753

Details

SX 39 SE ST GILES ON THE HEATH ST GILES ON THE HEATH

5/47 Metherel headstone about 4m - east of the Church of St Giles

GV II

Headstone. Late C18. Engraved by D. Sandercock, North Tamerton. Slate. Headstone with a segmental head commemorating Mary Metherel, died 1795 and her infant son. A clock in an aedicule carved in the head, flanked by roundels containing a kneeling figure and an angel. Good lettering, verse below inscription includes the lines "The child being gone the Mother could not stay/But humbly wishd for Death and slept away/."

Listing NGR: SX3537990753

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Legacy System number:: 90702
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.