PAIR OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF STANBURY CHILDREN GRAVE CIRCA 5 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST

PAIR OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF STANBURY CHILDREN GRAVE CIRCA 5 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST, RECTORY LANE, EX39 4LU

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1107603
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF STANBURY CHILDREN GRAVE CIRCA 5 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST
Statutory Address:: PAIR OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF STANBURY CHILDREN GRAVE CIRCA 5 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST, RECTORY LANE, EX39 4LU

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1107603
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF STANBURY CHILDREN GRAVE CIRCA 5 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST
Statutory Address 1:: PAIR OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF STANBURY CHILDREN GRAVE CIRCA 5 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST, RECTORY LANE, EX39 4LU

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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:: PAIR OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF STANBURY CHILDREN GRAVE CIRCA 5 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST, RECTORY LANE, EX39 4LU

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County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Instow
National Grid Reference:: SS 47984 30980

Details

SS 43 SE, 1/101

INSTOW, RECTORY LANE, Instow Town, Pair of gravestones at head and feet of Stanbury Children grave circa 5 metres south of East End of Church of St John Baptist

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Pair of Gravestones. 1690. Stone. Double segmental heads. Headstone has incised skulls and hour glass. To left and right respectively, inscriptions to Agnes and George Stanbury, daughter and son of Richard Stanbury who both died 1st March 1690, aged 15 and 11. Stone at foot of grave with weathered inscription recording their deaths by small pox.

Listing NGR: SS4798430980

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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.