FOSTER AND MILLS SLABS 4 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST BRANDON

FOSTER AND MILLS SLABS 4 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST BRANDON, NORTH DRIVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120768
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: FOSTER AND MILLS SLABS 4 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST BRANDON
Statutory Address:: FOSTER AND MILLS SLABS 4 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST BRANDON, NORTH DRIVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120768
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: FOSTER AND MILLS SLABS 4 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST BRANDON
Statutory Address 1:: FOSTER AND MILLS SLABS 4 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST BRANDON, NORTH DRIVE

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:: FOSTER AND MILLS SLABS 4 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST BRANDON, NORTH DRIVE

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Brancepeth
National Grid Reference:: NZ 22493 37684

Details

BRANCEPETH NORTH DRIVE NZ 2237 (South side, off) Brancepeth Park 15/21 Inset Foster and Mills slabs, 4.0 metres south of Church of St. Brandon II

Two slabs raised on piers. 1. 1721 to Jane Foster. Frosterley marble slab on sandstone piers. Wedge- shaped slab with deeply-chamfered sides resting on two squat circular piers. Inscription, across sides and top face, reads: HERE LIETH YE BODY OF JANE THE WIFE OF HENRY FOSTER, ALDERMAN OF DURHAM, WHO DIED JUNE ... 1721. AGED 49 YEARS. 2. 1807 to Henry Mills. Sandstone. Large horizontal slab with cyma-moulded edges rests on two 1.0-metre high circular piers. Worn inscription.

Listing NGR: NZ2249337684

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Legacy System number:: 109902
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.