GROUP OF 5 CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 10 TO 25 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

GROUP OF 5 CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 10 TO 25 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1115572
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 5 CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 10 TO 25 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 5 CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 10 TO 25 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1115572
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 5 CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 10 TO 25 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 5 CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 10 TO 25 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD

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:: GROUP OF 5 CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 10 TO 25 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Goudhurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 72360 37800

Details

GOUDHURST CHURCH ROAD TQ7237-7337 (south side) 15/119 Group of 5 Chest Tombs about 10 to 25 metres south west of Church of St Mary GV II Group of 5 chest tombs. All late C17/early C18. Stone. A row of 3 almost ident- ical chest tombs with panelled sides and wave-moulded corner pieces, probably crude attemps at urn-shaped corner pieces, and moulded top slabs. A fourth ident- ical chest with adjacent less ornate, monolithic and earlier chest, still with moulded top slab, closer to the church. All inscriptions worn and chests too sunk into ground to be legible.

Listing NGR: TQ7236037800

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Legacy System number:: 169469
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.