Gravestones to Tregonwell Campbell and Shelley Families and to Vicars of St Peters in Churchyard of St Peters
GRAVESTONES TO TREGONWELL CAMPBELL AND SHELLEY FAMILIES AND TO VICARS OF ST PETERS IN CHURCHYARD OF ST PETERS, HINTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108868
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Gravestones to Tregonwell Campbell and Shelley Families and to Vicars of St Peters in Churchyard of St Peters
- Statutory Address:
- GRAVESTONES TO TREGONWELL CAMPBELL AND SHELLEY FAMILIES AND TO VICARS OF ST PETERS IN CHURCHYARD OF ST PETERS, HINTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108868
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Gravestones to Tregonwell Campbell and Shelley Families and to Vicars of St Peters in Churchyard of St Peters
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRAVESTONES TO TREGONWELL CAMPBELL AND SHELLEY FAMILIES AND TO VICARS OF ST PETERS IN CHURCHYARD OF ST PETERS, HINTON ROAD
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GRAVESTONES TO TREGONWELL CAMPBELL AND SHELLEY FAMILIES AND TO VICARS OF ST PETERS IN CHURCHYARD OF ST PETERS, HINTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bournemouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 08927 91204
Details
1. 5186 HINTON ROAD (East Side) Gravestones to Tregonwell, Campbell and Shelley families, and to vicars of St Peters, in churchyard of St Peters. SZ 0891 13/1D 1.8.74.
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2. White marble altar tomb on terrace beside churchyard steps erected circa 1853 by Percy Bysshe Shelley's son to contain the poet's heart and the bodied of his parents-in-law, William and Mary Godwin, brought here from St Pancras Churchyard (London), and of his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (died 1851). Next to it, Gothic stone altar tomb of Mrs Maria Campbell (died 1860): pink marble colonnettes at corners, dog-tooth round inscription panel, foliage carving at ends and under eaves. Just below, the gravestones of several vicars, including the first, Alexander Morden Bennett (died 1880): crosses at head and foot, one with roundel of chalice. On next higher 'landing' of steps the Perpendicular style panelled altar tomb of Bournemouth's founder, Lewis Tregonwell, erected 1846.
The Church of St Peter, Churchyard Cross, Lychgate, Chapel of the Resurrection, and 2 groups of gravestones form a group.
Listing NGR: SZ0892791204
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101760
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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