HARRIS CHEST TOMB, 12 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF TOWER OF ST LEONARD'S CHURCH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1115025
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: HARRIS CHEST TOMB, 12 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF TOWER OF ST LEONARD'S CHURCH
Statutory Address:: HARRIS CHEST TOMB, 12 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF TOWER OF ST LEONARD'S CHURCH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1115025
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: HARRIS CHEST TOMB, 12 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF TOWER OF ST LEONARD'S CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: HARRIS CHEST TOMB, 12 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF TOWER OF ST LEONARD'S CHURCH

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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Location

Statutory Address:: HARRIS CHEST TOMB, 12 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF TOWER OF ST LEONARD'S CHURCH

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

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Tortworth
National Grid Reference:: ST 70406 93325

Details

ST 79 SW TORTWORTH

2/130 Harris Chest Tomb, 12 yards south west of Tower of St. G.V. Leonard's Church

II

Chest tomb. William Harris, died 1687. Limestone ashlar. Illegible sunken square inscribed panels; moulded plinth and cornice. The chest tombs represent a good collection of local and classical tomb forms and contribute greatly to the setting of the church.

Listing NGR: ST7040693325

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Legacy System number:: 34763
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.