Walls Enclosing Burial Ground at Beighton Fields Priory

WALLS ENCLOSING BURIAL GROUND AT BEIGHTON FIELDS PRIORY, BEIGHTON FIELDS LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1109002
Date first listed:
26-Aug-1965
List Entry Name:
Walls Enclosing Burial Ground at Beighton Fields Priory
Statutory Address:
WALLS ENCLOSING BURIAL GROUND AT BEIGHTON FIELDS PRIORY, BEIGHTON FIELDS LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1109002
Date first listed:
26-Aug-1965
List Entry Name:
Walls Enclosing Burial Ground at Beighton Fields Priory
Statutory Address 1:
WALLS ENCLOSING BURIAL GROUND AT BEIGHTON FIELDS PRIORY, BEIGHTON FIELDS LANE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
WALLS ENCLOSING BURIAL GROUND AT BEIGHTON FIELDS PRIORY, BEIGHTON FIELDS LANE

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

County:
Derbyshire
District:
Bolsover (District Authority)
Parish:
Barlborough
National Grid Reference:
SK4560276719

Details

SK 47 NE
1/23
26.8.65

PARISH OF BARLBOROUGH
BEIGHTON FIELDS LANE
(East Side)
Walls enclosing Burial Ground at Beighton Fields Priory

GV
II

Walls enclosing former burial ground of the Bowdon family. In its present form mostly
C19 and C20. Coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings. Rectangular
enclosure, enclosed by a chamfered coped wall, taller at the rear. C20 gate piers
with moulded caps, at the entrance on the south side. Within the enclosure is the
weathered remains of a tombstone with drapery, and an inscription plaque with four
shields flanking the dedicatory inscription. Within this enclosure lie the remains of
many generations of the family of Bowdon

Listing NGR: SK4560276719

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
79193
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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