BERRY CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES NORTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

BERRY CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES NORTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1106181
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: BERRY CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES NORTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: BERRY CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES NORTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1106181
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: BERRY CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES NORTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: BERRY CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES NORTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HIGH STREET

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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Statutory Address:: BERRY CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES NORTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HIGH STREET

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County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Chagford
National Park:: DARTMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SX7012487536

Details

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CHAGFORD HIGH STREET (north side), Chagford Berry chest tomb approximately12 metres north-west of Church of St Michael

GV II

Chest tomb with area railings. Dated 1828 in memory of Richard and Elizabeth Berry. Granite ashlar with cast iron area railings. Chest tomb has a chamfered plinth and a thick soffit-moulded flat lid. Each side contains a rectangular sunken panel. The inscription, in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering, is on the south-east side. It records the death of husband and wife Richard and Elizabeth Berry in the same year 1828, and some close relations who died before 1855. It is fenced by railings set in granite coping stones. Rails have fluted shafts and spear heads and the corner posts are bulbous with vase caps.

Listing NGR: SX7012487536

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Legacy System number:: 94656
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.