NORRISH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH-EAST OF AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

NORRISH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH-EAST OF AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, DRAYDOWN HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1105986
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: NORRISH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH-EAST OF AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: NORRISH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH-EAST OF AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, DRAYDOWN HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1105986
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: NORRISH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH-EAST OF AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: NORRISH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH-EAST OF AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, DRAYDOWN HILL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Statutory Address:: NORRISH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH-EAST OF AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, DRAYDOWN HILL

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County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Spreyton
National Grid Reference:: SX 69756 96749

Details

SX 69 NE SPREYTON DRAYDOWN HILL, Spreyton

1/271 Norrish chest tomb approximately 10 metres north-east of aisle of Church of St Michael GV II

Chest tomb. Dated 1843 in memory of Mary Norrish. Limestone. Rectangular in plan with moulded plinth and soffit-moulded flat lid each long side is divided into 2 bays by a plain flat pilaster and each corner has a similar clasping pilaster. The left panel on the south side is inscribed with plain capitals and records the death of Mary Norrish of Fuidge in 1843. The other panels are also inscribed with plain capitals and record the deaths of a succession of the family down to 1916. It is surrounded by low granite coping stones with the sockets for cast iron boundary railings.

Listing NGR: SX6975696749

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Legacy System number:: 95079
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.