KEEPER MONUMENT, IN THE CHURCHYARD AND 22 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS

KEEPER MONUMENT, IN THE CHURCHYARD AND 22 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1116048
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: KEEPER MONUMENT, IN THE CHURCHYARD AND 22 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS
Statutory Address:: KEEPER MONUMENT, IN THE CHURCHYARD AND 22 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1116048
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: KEEPER MONUMENT, IN THE CHURCHYARD AND 22 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS
Statutory Address 1:: KEEPER MONUMENT, IN THE CHURCHYARD AND 22 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS, HIGH STREET

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:: KEEPER MONUMENT, IN THE CHURCHYARD AND 22 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS, HIGH STREET

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

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Iron Acton
National Grid Reference:: ST 68052 83427

Details

ST 68 SE IRON ACTON HIGH STREET (south side)

2/8 Keeper monument, in the churchyard and 22 metres south G.V. of the tower of Church of St. James the Less

II

Chest tomb. Late C18. Freestone. Moulded slab, recessed corner balusters with swags, plain ends, one inscribed, sides have inscriptions in cartouches, decorated spandrels, moulded base. Inscription to north reads: In/Memory of/ JOHN Keeper/of this Parish who died April 1st 1799/Aged 65 years/The voice of innocent Abel's blood, err'd loud/For JUSTICE on Cain who by the law was dead/ But O may the blood of our Lord cry more loud/For MERCY on my guilty murderer's head. -

Listing NGR: ST6805283427

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Legacy System number:: 350691
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.